We are taught to think of depth as a destination or the end point. That if you keep going through the noise, the surface talk, the politeness, the performance, you will arrive or end with somewhere real. A core. A truth. A thing that does not change or something constant or worth discovering. This is the norm or maybe a promise. That underneath everything that is messy and contradictory, there is something clean, clear and final waiting for you.
But that is not how layers work.
Take any problem you have been looping for months or even for years. Something you keep returning to or keep explaining to yourself or keep solving in different ways and approaches. Like peeling a layer of an onion
The outer layer does not just hide the inner one. It gets rewritten by it.
This applies to almost aspects of our life. Sometimes, we peel the layer and move closer to the next layer to be peeled or fall into the old pattern of circling at the same layer.
At the very end, you will find something that does not have a name. So you have peeled a problem to its root.
And then what?
Nothing. Something that feels like nothing because it has no edges. I don’t know. Maybe kind of numbness? No name. No fixed position you can point to and say there, that is it and call it by a name.
The Buddhists have a word for this. Emptiness ! But not the emptiness of absence or solitude. The emptiness of fullness so complete it cannot be contained in any form.
The onion ends and there is no onion, just layers. Only the smell exists along with burning eyes and smelling hands.
This is the truth that layers usually carry. Not the destination but the experiences. Not what you find but who you become in the process of exploration. Every layer peeled is a perception expanded or altered. You do not arrive. You just peel a layer. That is the point or even of life. Who knows!
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