There must be at least one thing. The universe is the only atom, the a-tomos, the non-cuttable.
Reification is thingification, which is making a thing out of no thing, so have you considered that you’ve made a thing out of a someone (brahman)? Or maybe I should ask what you think the universe is, where it came from, what is fundamental reality if not brahman?
The Abrahamic believers has a high degree of propensity to reify, i.e. reifying the idea of God as ‘something’ that exists within empirical-rational reality.
The pantheists who believe in Brahman also has the tendency to reify but that is in very low degrees.
This seems more like personification rather than reification, but let’s just forget the Abrahamic god just like we have forgotten Zeus. I want to know if the universe is a bunch of sterile junk or if it is indeed alive.
Note Bruce Lee’s ‘fighting without fighting’ or Wu Wei - action without action, etc.
Yes because water does not fight, it yields.
Because the idea of Brahman still has the minutest remnants of reification I gave it up when I understoodd and realized the truth of non-reification within Buddhism’s view and practice.
I still think the word you’re looking for is personification. It’s more survivally advantageous to assume there is a tiger making the grass move than the wind.
Note the reification impulse is so strong within the psyche that even many Buddhists also reify that ‘something’, e.g. Buddha Nature, Store Consciousness, Alan Watts’ ‘God’ etc. but these reifications are not as ‘concrete’ as the concretizing the idea of God of the theists.
Yes, I’m confident all the religions have been perverted. Alan Watts believed in brahman. He described himself as a mix of buddhism and hinduism. He said you can either compliment the universe or you can seek to put it down.
Note, don’t attribute ‘nihilism’ or ‘solipism’ to me.
It’s not instinctual for me to label people.