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In turning the western mind towards eastern philosophy, one of the big issues that can sometimes arise is the idea of everything vs nothing, light vs dark. In most of western philosophy, light is the force of positivity and good, while dark is the shadowed, and in some cases, even thought of as the evil. Light is life, dark is death might be another way to describe that phenomena. In much of eastern philosophy, however, black is your positive color. Black is the void, the source of all life, the great mystery, the unknown. It is a powerful force and one to be respected. Nothingness, as a state of mind, is a transcendent state that must be worked towards. Emptying the mind is the goal of meditations the world around, and yet it can be difficult for western students to turn their own minds to the idea that nothingness is the highest form, if only because there is a much busier goal-oriented mindset to break away from.