Experience and Stillness is Awareness and Emptiness

 “Two birds sat in the self-same tree:
one pecked of the fruit
while the other sat and watched.”
(the two truths)

 From the highest point of view, we (as empty essence) use experience/awareness, to enjoy and express our true nature of shunyata/emptiness.

Emptiness is beyond all experiences, but allows experiences to take place.
Therefore, all enlightened activity is an expression of our true nature: Emptiness. We reflect clarity and inner peace in our actions.

 There is beauty
in all walks of life.
The absolute is in the relative.

If we are just aware without understanding emptiness, we – and everything else – seem solid: this is the extreme of eternalism.
If we are just emptiness without understanding awareness, we are in oblivion – the extreme of nilhilism.

These two must go together: this is the Middle Way.
In the middle, we have the clarity of compassionate towards both extremes.

The foundation of beauty
is love and compassion.

 The foundation of
love and compassion
is pure empty awareness.

 The foundation of
pure empty awareness
is meeting the teacher.

 The foundation of
meeting the teacher
is your own compassionate awareness.

 The foundation of your own compassionate awareness
is dissatisfaction.

 The foundation of
dissatisfaction
is the recognition of suffering…