You asked: “Say What?”
That’s what I first thought when I came upon this in spiritual texts:
- Form is Form, Emptiness is Emptiness
- Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
- No Form, No Emptiness
- The universe is just “Like This”
But if you think about it, when conceiving of (or naming) God - isn’t “Say What?” the only response that indicates you ‘get it’ - or at least ‘don’t get it wrong.’ In other words, the moment you think you ‘get’ God, you are furthest away from whatever the word ‘God’ points to.
Because Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s Physics operate at (and within) the level of Name and Form, the truth will always appear to be whatever is measured.
It’s very difficult to understand if you’re trying to conceptualize it - you can read all you want about hitting a baseball, but if you are thinking about what you read when the pitch arrives, you will not even know the ball has already passed to the catcher’s glove.
So to know God, you have to let go of all opinions, conceptions, knowledge and then this ‘Say What?’ is unproblematic. ‘Say What?’ is about as close to the true nature of Heaven that you can get while confronting it from Name and Form. (this ‘Name and Form’ world is ‘The World’ as Jesus called it, as opposed to the ‘Kingdom,’ which existed along side, as it were.)
Concepts can not hit a baseball, no matter how accurately you describe it’s mechanics.
A Zen master once said it this way: “Only you can pee for yourself.”
So to understand ‘neither zero, nor one, nor many’ ... only you can pee for yourself :-)
I know it sounds weird, but Einstein and Quantum Mechanics will never get out of their frustrating fish bowl where zero becomes one becomes infinity and returns to zero until they see something like “ahhh, the light is both a wave and a particle, at the same time, though it never is, and never was, nor will be, it was everything all along, eternal, yet never existed - neither zero times, nor one time, nor many.”
Our eyes are covered by the dust of space and time (The World), connecting dots that aren’t. With language like the verb ‘to be.’
All that is necessary is to put these things down, for even an instant. Would God really manifest in a realm constrained by ‘must be zero or one or many Gods.’
Above is not dogma. Just a way of looking at ‘The World’ that helps clear it away so what’s already there behind the illusion can manifest.