Photo: Circle of Circles

“If we focus on the shape of zero, we find a line in the shape of a circle, a curving edge that connects only to itself. Inside the line is space, and outside the line is space: the edge is the edge between space and space, and so it is not an edge at all. This ‘edge that is no edge’ is the fitting symbol of space. From that perspective, every line that defines and gives shape is a symbol—space within, space without: an edge without substance. Every line, every shape returns to zero as the symbol of space. Every beginning, every ending, even every existent!”
…..’Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space, Tarthang Tulku, p. 50

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Photo:  Zero at beginning of 16, Three-Dimensional Immagining

“We have seen that zero gives rise to 16. If zero is the point before it manifests as point, 16 identifies the precise, exacting means through which zero, having given location, makes possible the move from ‘nothing’ to structure and form. 16 is the transition of zero, the foundation for the architecture of manifestation.”
…..’Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space,’ Tarthang Tulku, p. 36

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Photo:  ‘Zeros’ – Pixabay

Here is a cross-link to a series of posts on this Forum in which I quoted Rinpoche, and also from the book ‘Unformulated Experience,’ by Donnel B. Stern. I mentioned in a recent TSK Study Group, as we tried to get our heads around the ‘gap’ between thoughts, that it’s really only a gap/blank, [or openness], depending on the perspective we have adopted.  The zero-point of 16 is central. I promised the group I would share some quotes from the books… Not suggesting I have answers or am proclaiming anything in these posts.  Think of them as practice notes on my journey of inquiry…

https://discussions.creativeinquiry.org/forums/topic/unformulated-experience/