Da Vinci’s Secret
Why Nothingness Beats Enlightenment
Dear UnMinders,
Leonardo da Vinci, the suspiciously enlightened polymath, slipped a spiritual grenade into polite philosophy when he wrote.
“Among the great things which are to be found among us,
the being of nothingness is the greatest.”
Notice what he did not say.
He did not say emptiness is useful.
He did not say nothingness is calming.
He did not say it helps with productivity.
He said it is the greatest.
Which is awkward, because nothingness has no résumé, no personality, and no interest in your spiritual brand.
This is where UnMind enters.
Not mindfulness. Not better thinking. Not positive cognition in robes.
UnMind.
The mind’s elegant unemployment.
UnMind is not the absence of intelligence.
It is intelligence finally released from the job of pretending to be someone.
The mind loves labels the way toddlers love stickers. It slaps “me,” “mine,” “success,” “failure,” “awakening,” and “Monday” onto raw reality and then wonders why existence feels itchy.
No-mind is the moment the sticker book falls into a river.
Suddenly, reality breathes again.
The sages knew this.
Zen called it no-mind.
Dzogchen called it rigpa.
Advaita called it the Self and then immediately apologized for the word.
Taoism shrugged and poured tea.
UnMind is not blankness. It is unoccupied awareness.
It is consciousness before it learned to narrate.
It is the greatest possibility because it does not try to be possible.
Nothingness does not compete.
Nothingness does not hustle.
Nothingness does not attend workshops titled “How to Be More Nothing by Friday.”
And yet, everything arises from it.
This is why nothingness terrifies the ego.
Because the ego survives by being something. Preferably impressive. Preferably misunderstood.
But UnMind does not argue.
It does not refute the ego.
It simply forgets to feed it.
And in that forgetting, freedom happens accidentally.
You do not enter UnMind by effort. Effort is mind in gym clothes.
You stumble into it when the mind finally exhausts itself trying to control the uncontrollable, define the indefinable, and understand the obvious.
In UnMind, there is no concept of sacred or profane.
No spiritual ladder.
No identity upgrade.
There is just what is, without commentary.
And hilariously, this turns out to be enough.
Leonardo saw it.
The mystics lived it.
The clowns of enlightenment laughed from inside it.
The greatest treasure is not knowledge.
It is the collapse of the knower.
When nothing is left to hold onto, existence holds you.
When nothing is claimed, everything is allowed.
This is why nothingness is not nihilism.
Nihilism is disappointed mind.
Nothingness is liberated awareness.
UnMind is the ultimate rebellion because it refuses even rebellion.
No flags.
No slogans.
No conclusions.
Just the quiet, scandalous recognition.
The greatest thing you will ever discover is what remains when you stop being someone.
Thank You for reading,
Manpreet Singh
“How to Be More Nothing by Friday.” 🤣
ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT ❤️ 🙏 ✨️💌