Appearance over Emptiness
We become charmed and enchanted by appearances.
“The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you,
Not in a mansion of wood and stone.
Split a piece of wood and God is there,
Lift a stone and you will find God.”
Nag Hamadi Scroll
The kingdom of pure awareness is inside you and all around you.
Not in a meditation hall of wood and stone.
Split a piece of wood and pure awareness is there,
Lift a stone and you will find pure awareness.
Enchanting appearances can be deceiving.
Pure awareness is the clear light that exposes
obscuring, charming appearances.
God and Buddha are mental appearances
to remind us of pure awareness,
for without that,
God and Buddha would not be known!
Splitting wood and lifting stones
are day to day living.
Heart sutra:
“Form is emptiness.
Emptiness is none other than form…”
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Been thinking this all weekend
‘Everything Is as It appears to be.
Nothing Is as It appears to be.’
Access Consciousness
Tony – would you say that it is because our true nature is the essence of emptiness that we can recognise that in all other appearances?
Daisy
Pure emptiness – pure awareness itself is ‘doing’ the recognising. When it is pure there is no ‘we’, no ‘I’, merely pure awareness.
There is no Daisy in that moment.
If ‘we’ try to see ’emptiness’ in everything then that is a mental concept about emptiness – our true nature. Emptiness gets left behind.
The problem is that this is so simple. Our clinging ego immediately latches onto the experience and the purity is forgotten.
Awareness is alive and kicking but emptiness is forgotten.
It’s still present of course but goes unnoticed.
Tony
Thanks for the reply, Tony – I shall go away and consider what you have written.
D