The Path of the Healing Void

 

The Path of the Healing Void

Twelve Thresholds of Awakening between Jātaka, Negative Theology, and the Transfiguration of Power

Giuseppe Gugliotta

 

The cover does not introduce the book as an object, but as a threshold.
The reader is invited to enter the void before reading.

 

Introduction

There is no hero at the center of this book.
There is a void learning how to become space.

The Path of the Healing Void is conceived as a passage—not through doctrines, but through thresholds. Twelve movements inspired by the Buddhist Jātakas, read as stations of an initiatory path in which compassion slowly and irreversibly transforms, until it becomes universal intercession and the undoing of sacrificial power.

This is not a path of elevation.
It is a practice of subtraction.

 

Central Body

Each threshold adds nothing to the subject.
Each threshold lightens the weight of separation.

Through a dialogue between early Buddhism, negative theology, and a critique of power, the book reveals violence not merely as a historical or political phenomenon, but as a symbolic structure: the logic of necessary sacrifice, of the price that must be paid, of the victim that justifies order.

Here, compassion does not intervene to correct.
It does not save in order to dominate.
It does not judge in order to replace.

Through progressive figures—from silent offering, to the word that fractures, to radical renunciation—the path leads toward the Nigrodhamiga-Jātaka, the Banyan Deer: not an enlightened ruler, not a savior, but a presence that intercedes by becoming space, transforming power through the refusal to exercise it.

In this sense, awakening does not produce a better subject.
It dissolves the separated subject altogether.

 

Symbolic Culmination (Echo of the Apophatic Epilogue)

The heart of the Path is not an answer.
It is a cessation.

Not this, not that:
only the void that heals.

Here, compassion is no longer an act.
It becomes a condition of reality itself.

 

Editorial Closing / Invitation

This essay is addressed to those who are not seeking spiritual consolation,
but a transformation in the way of inhabiting the world.

To those who sense that real change does not occur by conquering a center,
but by leaving it empty.

 

📎 Essay links

• 📘 PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywAcPh3IdfXT3nfEAIIZ9_8eUGg37cEo/view?usp=sharing
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Final note

The Path of the Healing Void does not propose a new language of power,
but its symbolic disarmament.