Prajna: 12 Universal Wrong Conceptions: 1. Uno (Ω = God)
- May 27, 2025
- 6 min read
Updated: Dec 14, 2025
«Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.» ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Manon, Ballerina".
Taxonomy of Existence
1. Uno (Ω = God)
The Ineffable Source
Words often conceal more than they reveal. Every term we use to describe the divine or the totality of existence inevitably carries centuries of interpretation, distortion, and division. The word God is a prime example. As Eckhart Tolle writes in The Power of Now:
“The word God has been emptied of its true meaning over thousands of years of misuse. […] Neither God, nor Being, nor any other term can define or explain the ineffable reality behind these words, so the only important question is whether the word in question helps or prevents you from having the experience of That which it points to.”
The reality behind the word cannot be confined to language. To reduce semantic confusion and unite spiritual and scientific perspectives, we will use here the term Uno (Ω) — or Unum, The One, The Whole, The All, Unus Mundus — as a symbol for the supreme totality that contains everything that exists and everything that does not exist.
Thus, Uno is equivalent, in essence, to God, Universe, Cosmos, Being, Source, Dharmakaya, Infinite Consciousness, or Existence Itself.
The Moral and Mythic Dimensions of Uno
Human beings experience the cosmic dance of Uno as the tension between order and chaos. Jordan B. Peterson reminds us that ancient mythologies saw the world not as a collection of objects but as a drama unfolding between these two poles:
Order — the known, the realm of predictability, stability, cooperation, and meaning.
Chaos — the unknown, the source of both creation and destruction, of novelty and dissolution.
Nature — and therefore Uno —contains both: the eternal interplay of birth and death, structure and freedom.
The Nature of Uno — The Totality Principle
The Union of Existence with Non-Existence
Uno is the union that contains everything that is with everything that is not. This contrasensual idea leads to the uncomfortable reality that Uno is simultaneously contradiction and tautology — Uno and Emptiness are the same principle. At each moment, the initial condition is Emptiness.
Fundamentally, there is nothing, from which something becomes existence; and eventually, existence ceases, dissolving back into nothing.Things are not, then things become, and later things are not again — restarting endlessly.
An alternating sinusoidal of rebirth into existence and death into non-existence.
The Union of All Unions
If we imagined the totality of all sets, Uno would be the union that contains every union — the ultimate inclusion of inclusions. At each moment, Uno is the Ultimate Version of Reality, the complete and living totality of all actual and potential realities that coexist within the continuum of existence.
The Union of All Existences
Uno includes all that exists materially — forms and bodies in space and time — as well as all that exists immaterially: thoughts, dreams, equations, expressions, memories, archetypes, and spiritual presences. It is both form and inform; both visible manifestation and invisible essence.
Every existing thing, every idea, every potential, and every absence is contained in Uno as an aspect of the same indivisible totality.
The Totality of Movement and Transformation
Uno is not static perfection; it is dynamic wholeness. It includes all motion, transformation, generation, degeneration, and regeneration — all flows of energy, birth, decay, and renewal.
The material and immaterial continuously flow through each other, exchanging information and form.
Thus, Uno is not merely being; it is also becoming — the eternal unfolding and harmonizing of all opposites.
From Uno to Manifestation
The passage from Uno to the structured universe is not a temporal event but an ontological unfolding. Uno is the “before” of time only in a metaphysical sense. From it arise the first dualities: motion and rest, inner and outer, self and other, light and shadow.
But none of these divisions occur in Uno. They unfold from Uno.
As soon as differentiation arises, the pure indivisibility of Uno gives rise to multiplicity —not as a fall, but as an expression: the universe revealing its countless aspects from a single inexhaustible root.
The Structure of Being — Form, Inform, and Motion
Everything real presents three inseparable dimensions:
Form — the corporeal, material aspect, visible in space and measurable in scale.
Inform — the incorporeal, informational essence, existing in the immaterial universe.
Movement and Transformation — the continuous process linking form and inform, generation and dissolution.
All material existence contains immaterial information, and all information manifests through form. Forms decompose into sub-forms; information unfolds into interdependent elements — bits, memories, vibrations.
Through movement, forms deform, dissolve, and return to their informational origin, from which new forms arise.
Being and non-being alternate in an eternal pulse.
In Uno, matter is information in motion, and information is matter in potential.
This triadic structure mirrors the universal breathing of creation and dissolution — the living respiration of Uno itself.
The Metaphysical View
Uno is the primordial condition of reality — the first luminous simplicity that arises from Emptiness. It is not “one” as opposed to “two,” nor a numerical unity; it is the non-dual singularity in which no distinctions yet exist.
Where Emptiness is the absolute absence of form, substance, or determination, Uno is the first determination of the indeterminate: the moment the Void expresses itself as being.
It is the unbroken field from which all future realities will unfold.
Uno is completely without division: the distinction between inner and outer, subject and object, energy and matter, mind and world, has not yet been conceived.
In metaphysical terms, Uno is:
the ground of all manifestation
the undifferentiated fullness latent within the Void
the first luminous point of self-presence
the pre-cosmic unity containing all possibilities in potential
Though later layers introduce multiplicity and polarity, their foundation is this simple, indivisible state.
Uno is not static: it is the primordial tension of possibility — the silent seed from which all worlds unfold.
The Limits of Definition — The Cloud in the Paper
This quote is attributed to Saint Gregory of Nyssa, one of the Cappadocian Fathers.
«Irrespective of the progress made by our mind in the Contemplation of God, it never attains what He is; only what is beneath Him.»
This reflects his key concept of epektasis—the endless striving and progress toward God. Because God is infinite and incomprehensible, the human mind can only grasp His manifestations, not His essence.
Similarly, the Buddha said, as written in the Gangottara Sutra,
«All things, whether real or illusory, are ultimately inapprehensible.»
Thich Nhat Hanh beautifully illustrates this:
«As a piece of paper is composed of numerous non-paper elements, analogically, an individual is a collection of non-individual elements. There is a cloud passing in the sky of your mind.»
Everything is interdependent and inseparable. Meaning itself follows this principle: each definition depends on others antecedently, forming an infinite web no intellect can fully contain.
Thus, all definitions are relative: they are not absolutely true or false but more or less useful in context.
Uno cannot be known intellectually, only realized in awareness.
The Buddha encapsulated this through the Three Marks of Existence (tilakkhana):
Impermanence (anitya) — all things are transient and in constant change.
Suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha) — all conditioned things are unsatisfactory and incapable of providing lasting fulfillment.
Non-self or insubstantiality (anatman) — no thing or being possesses a permanent, independent essence.
As Nyanaponika Thera writes:
“The three are truly universal marks, characteristics of that which lies below or beyond our normal level of perception.”
Misunderstanding the Uno Concept
When Uno’s unity is forgotten, misunderstanding arises, leading to human suffering, generating:
Deception and Suffering: confusion, despair, anxiety, or existential emptiness
Lack of Love and Compassion: neglect of self, others, and the living world
Disconnection and Isolation: alienation, selfishness, and fear — the root of spiritual ignorance
Such misalignment with Uno’s unity manifests as the existential absurdity that thinkers like Camus and Schopenhauer described — the human condition divided from its source.
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