Talk:You Are Alone/@comment-26152903-20150227205547

''In this universe, there is one great energy and we have no name for it. Peopl have tried various names for it, like God, like Brahman, like Tao, but in the west the word God has got so many funny associations with it that most people are bored with it.When people say God, the father almighty most people feel funny inside. So we like to hear new words, we like to hear about Tao, about Brahman, about Shinto... and such strange names from the east because they dont carry the same associations of mawkish sanctimony and funny meanings from the past. And actually, some of these words that the Buddhists use for the basic energy of the world reakky dont mean anything at all. The word tathata which is translated from the sanskrit as suchness or thusness or something like that, really means something more like  dadada  based on the word  tat  which is translated into  that , and so in sanskrit it is said; ' tat tvum asi, that thou art or, in modern american you're it '. But da da da, thats the first sound a baby makes when it comes into the world, because the baby looks around and says ' da da da ' and the fathers flatter themselves and think its saying ' DaDa' which means daddy, but according to Buddhist philosophy all this universe is one 'dadada'. Now that mans '' ten thousand functions,ten thousand thigns,' one suchness. And we're all one suchness.'' - Alan Watts.