The Great Doubt

• Nihilistic questioning can be applied to any stable meaning, leading to an uncomfortable process of doubt.


• In Eastern thought, leaning into nihilism can trigger the "Great Doubt," a period of profound transformation through questioning established worldviews.

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Stephen West

The nihilistic exercise of pulling the foundations

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Even in the whorl of our own personal tragedies, when the cosmos appears at its most chaotic and impartial, I have come to see the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning.