Emptiness means to be full of everything but empty of a separate existence.
Imagine, for a moment, a beautiful flower.
That flower might be an orchid or a rose, or even
a simple little daisy growing beside a path.
Looking into a flower, we can see that it is full of life.
It contains soil, rain, and sunshine.
It is also full of clouds, oceans, and minerals.
It is even full of space and time.
In fact,
the whole cosmos is present in this one little flower.
If we took out just one of these “non – flower” elements,
the flower would not be there.
Without the soil’s nutrients, the flower could not grow.
Without rain and sunshine, the flower would die.
And if we removed all the non – flower elements,
there would be nothing substantive left that we could call a “flower. ”
So
our observation tells us that the flower is full of the whole cosmos,
while at the same time it is empty of a separate self-existence.
The flower cannot exist by itself alone.
Rog note – This simple example about a ‘separate “self”
is the heart and key of realizing one’s True Nature
and ultimately the Enlightening fulfillment of the Path…
Keep this theme in mind as you travel along your own Path.
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes”…
Currently featuring “The Art of Living”
By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
My aim is to present
a deeper, higher, wider, non-theological perspective
into common sense Spirituality
that most of us folks raised in the ‘west’ never get introduced to,
to fulfill life’s most intriguing questions…
