Anything Goes

Read Anything Goes to Discover—

• How To Discover Insight Using Sayings

• How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking

• How To Increase Your Mental Capability Using Sayings

Collection of Sayings

• This book is a compilation of sayings useful in understanding Eastern thought and General Semantics.

• The agreement between General Semantics and Eastern philosophy is profound, illuminating, and deepens the understanding of both.

• The expressions “The description is not the described” and “The thought is not the thing” are found in both Eastern philosophy and General Semantics.

• Both systems arrive at reality as nonverbal, silent, and beyond comprehension with thought.

• This, even though one is spiritual and one is atheistic.

• Two entirely different approaches arriving at the same ultimate conclusions are exciting and enlightening.

Zen Koans and Aphorisms

• You will find the sayings amusing, engaging, exciting, helpful, and thought-provoking.

• Like Zen koans, they reveal the other side free of words if you sit with them.

• The sayings are open to multiple interpretations and meanings.

• New meanings will arrive on different journeys through the book.

• The same insight shared in different ways helps you not to miss deeper felt experiences for simple surface meanings.

• A slight change in wording can allow someone to drop their mind long enough to hear something fresh.

• One person’s “that’s obvious” is another person’s “ah-ha” moment.

Eastern Thought

• Let the sayings pass that don’t open to you now.

• Let sayings percolate and seep until you are ready for them.

• Focus on the sayings that bring stillness.

• Listen beyond the words.

• Feel, rather than think, the sayings through.

• Sense, rather than think, the music behind the words.

Word Nothing

• In Eastern thought, the word “nothing” can have a profoundly positive meaning.

• “Nothing” can mean the unknowable creative source of everything.

• Eastern philosophy has two major divisions; one with gods and one with a void instead of gods.

• The word “nothing” in this book often refers to this invisible, unfathomable, and all-powerful Eastern void.

• The word “void” is also considered positive in Eastern philosophy.

• Because of the negative connotations of the words “void” or “nothing,” the Western mind would do better to think of “positive pure-energy” in place of void and nothing.

• The word “nothing” has many meanings other than zero: emptiness, empty space, formless energy, God, invisible power, no thing, no things as referents, no thoughts, no thoughts as referents, no thoughts being what they only represent, not thinging, self as space, the creative source, the ineffable, the life force, the nature of being, the positive Eastern void, the way of life.

• Consider the word “nothing” as a shortened form of the two words “not thinging!”

Words Anything and Everything

• The words “everything” and “anything” in this book refer to conceptualizing, concretizing, ideas, images, labels, making thoughts into reality, names, objectifying, reification, some thought, some thought-thing, terms, thingifying, thought as delusion, thought as an illusion, thought pretending to be the real, thoughts as what they represent, thought-things, treating thoughts as things.

• Consider the word “everything” as a shortened form of the two words “every thought-thing!”

• Consider the word “anything” as a shortened form of the two words “any thought-thing!”

Something for Nothing

• Some of the sayings are variations on sayings from Something For Nothing.

• The style of sayings in this book is generally more direct than the style of sayings in Something For Nothing.