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PART 2: INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF MET

2.1. Overview of the 5-layer system
The MET theory describes a system of 5 layers of existence organized in an “outside-in” manner, like a multi-layered frame of reference:
(1) Vực – Abyss
(2) Void – meaningless gap
(3) Màn – Membrane
(4) Physical Layer
(5) Trung Tâm – Central Reflective Domain
Each layer is not independent; it is a different phase of presence, a different “state of existence” of oscillation and structure.
Core idea:
The further out the layer → the less structure.
The further in the layer → the more structure, the more capacity for distinction.
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2.2. Layer 1 – VỰC (ABYSS)
Nature: undefinable, unmeasurable.
Key characteristics
No rules
No form
No time
Cannot retain structured information
Any oscillation with distinction that touches it dissolves into meaningless noise
Why is it important?
The Abyss explains:
Absolute death (when the self dissolves into noise)
Destruction of information structure (oscillation completely erased)
Why the universe has a dynamic boundary (expansion eating into the Abyss)
In MET, the Abyss is not “nothingness”.
It is the ultimate noise background that no other layer can penetrate.
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2.3. Layer 2 – VOID (MEANINGLESS GAP)
The Void acts as an intermediary between the Abyss and the structured layers.
Characteristics
Lies interspersed between all layers
Carries information without organization
Can transmit information but cannot retain it
Like a “conceptual vacuum”
Role
The Void:
Keeps the layers separate
Allows oscillation to pass through without being immediately “eaten”
Is a place where no living being can exist, but information can still drift
This layer explains why:
The background energy of the universe exists
Some “strange” oscillations (premonitions, intuition) do not originate from the physical layer
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2.4. Layer 3 – MÀN (MEMBRANE LAYER)
This is the most important layer for life.
Outstanding characteristics
Has expansion → gives birth to time
Has dimensions → gives birth to space
Oscillations entering here are bent and slowed, creating progression
This is where the following can form:
causality
memory
consciousness with a sense of time
evolution
society
science
Why does only this layer have time?
Because only the Membrane has “memory degree” — a form of structural deformation that prevents oscillation from returning instantly.
This is the paradise of organization but also the prison of expansion.
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2.5. Layer 4 – PHYSICAL LAYER
This is “our universe” — but only one layer.
Characteristics
Consists of elementary particles, atoms, biology, dark matter
Completely measurable
Bound by laws
Is the layer that decodes “oscillation” into physics
Special point
Physics is not the origin; it is merely the language that interprets oscillation.
Meaning:
matter = highly stable oscillation
energy = oscillation with large amplitude
force = interacting oscillation
This layer is only the “manifestation”, not the “source”.
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2.6. Layer 5 – TRUNG TÂM (CENTRAL REFLECTIVE DOMAIN)
This is the core of the entire system.
It does nothing, yet it does everything.
It does not understand.
It does not interpret.
It does not select.
It only:
Reflects every oscillation from every layer into each other like a blind mirror.
Effects
Allows layers to know about each other
Creates the basis for distinction
Creates the foundation for consciousness
Creates the foundation for creativity, premonition, intuition
If there were no Center:
No layer would know any other layer
There would be no distinction → no existence
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2.7. Relationship between the 5 layers
Relationship diagram
[Abyss] ↔ [Void] ↔ [Membrane] ↔ [Physical] ↔ [Center]
But do not view this as “horizontal”.
Instead, it is like a multi-layer burger:
each layer is stacked on top of the other
void permeates like gaps
the center is the core
the abyss is the floating outer boundary
Summary of relationships
Abyss → destroys structure
Void → transfers regions
Membrane → creates time
Physical → creates form
Center → creates distinction
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2.8. Why is this model not self-contradictory?
Unlike classical metaphysical theories:
MET does not require a “beginning of the universe”
MET does not need a “creative will”
MET does not create a chicken-egg paradox
Because:
The Center does not think → cannot be self-contradictory
The Abyss has no rules → cannot be wrong
The Void does not retain information → does not accumulate errors
The Membrane absorbs errors through expansion
The Physical is only manifestation → does not demand ultimacy
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LAYER 0 – “VÔ GIỚI” (Non-Realm / Pre-Reflective Base)
Vô Giới is the “negative” layer of MET — it is not existence, not nothingness, not energy, not consciousness.
It is the state before any layer can form.
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Nature of Vô Giới (concise 4 points)
No reflection
No surface, no “mirror”, no condition for reflection to occur.
No distinction
Cannot be separated into moving/still, is/is-not, inside/outside.
The capacity for distinction has not yet appeared.
No concept generation
No “before”, “after”, “where”, “what”.
Every concept is undefinable in Vô Giới.
Not nothingness
Nothingness (Abyss) is still “dissolution of distinction”.
Vô Giới is “there is no distinction yet to dissolve”.
Vô Giới = the foundational condition for existence to be able to appear, not existence itself.
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Role of Vô Giới in MET
Vô Giới → Center
Only when a primary distinction pulse appears within Vô Giới does the Center form to reflect.
Center → Oscillation → Physical Layer
This is the process of existence formation.
Resolves the original paradox
No need to ask “Where does the Center come from”,
because the Center is only the first moment when distinction becomes possible,
not an “absolute origin”.
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How is Vô Giới different from Abyss and Void?
LayerCharacteristic
Vô GiớiNo distinction, no reflection → pre-condition
VoidWeak distinction, blurred oscillation
AbyssDissolution of distinction, pure noise
Vô Giới lies outside the birth-death cycle of the layers.
Nothing falls into Vô Giới and nothing emerges from it in a physical sense.
It is only the potential background for existence.
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Vô Giới in life and mind
Humans cannot “feel” Vô Giới,
but can see its traces through:
the moment just before an idea flashes
the empty state before emotion
the point between two thoughts where consciousness has not yet named anything
That is not silence or blank space,
but not-yet-able-to-distinguish.
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EXAMPLE: THE AQUARIUM ANALOGY MODEL
(To visualize the 6-layer MET structure)
0: “Vô Giới”: the aquarium tank itself.
1: Central layer: the water.
2: Physical layer: settled sediment.
3: Membrane layer: the thin outer layer of sediment.
4: Void layer: dirty water inside the sediment.
5: Abyss layer: water outside the sediment layer.
When water is poured into a tank that already has sediment, it must wait a while to settle. When it settles long enough, it forms a thick sediment layer at the bottom and a thin layer on the outside. Inside the thick sediment layer are small clumps of sediment, and inside those small clumps are microorganisms.
Microorganisms live inside the small clumps of sediment, have not yet left the thick sediment layer, do not know about the thin sediment layer outside, and certainly do not know that beyond the dirty sediment membrane is vast water. They even less know the shape of the aquarium tank, and what lies outside the tank is something they cannot imagine to ask about.
And another tank poured with pure distilled water without sediment will never settle, so there will be no microorganisms living in it.
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