NIL

Before one, there is zero.Before sound, there is silence.Before creation, there is the void.Every culture found its own word for nothing, yet they all point to the same truth: emptiness is not absence. It is potential.Sifr, the Arabic root of "zero" and "cipher", was revolutionary a symbol for what isn't there, yet changes everything.Shunya, Sanskrit for "void", became the foundation of Buddhist philosophy: the emptiness from which all things arise.Ling, Rei, Nil, Nol different tongues, same silence.Six meditations on zero.Six ways of saying nothing.Six paths back to the beginning.A new beginning.