“Il y a” as discussed by Doc G is a situation where there’s an indeterminacy of being, in the sense that beings are disintegrate into “no thing” --- that is neither nothing nor something. “Il y a” describes the lack of subjectivity, it’s the darkness that gives no orientation, no perspective, no meaning.
But “no meaning” doesn’t mean that the meaning does not exist. “No orientation” doesn’t mean that there are no light in front of us… maybe we just closed our eyes.
Sometimes we close our eyes because it’s effortless, and can in some way wash away our problems. By closing our eyes we don’t have to worry about judgments from other people, we just have to be one of the people walking down the street. And because it’s so comfortable to be in the darkness and sleep, we have forgotten to search for the light. “Hassle eh.”
In the darkness we can’t see clearly even ourselves. In this darkness we don’t have any goal, and we are not going for anything. There’s no meaning and we are not going to find it. “Wala nga eh.”
So what do we mean by truly exist or be a being is to get out of our “Il y a”. To be able to get out of “Il y a”, to get out of the darkness and be unique, different, special, one needs to exert a great amount of effort and initiative. We have to take up the responsibility, and to exercise wisdom of love --- “what we can do for the Others?” Because what we have done define ourselves, so for us to really determine ourselves, we must first be Conscious-Beings-In-The-World-For-Others.
