What’s Emptiness All About?

Emptiness is what it’s all about.

It’s all about the magic, the magi, the art of wisdom to influence events by realising the emptiness of illusions, and understanding the tricks the mind plays on consciousness.

We have to be very careful that we don’t fall into nihilism, where everything seems pointless. Likewise, we don’t want to create something to adhere to and make special. Both these sets of ideas fix us in a state. We need our mind to quieten down to understand pure reality, which is not a set of ideas: it is unchanging consciousness that recognises these ideas.

The one thing that we forget or ignore is consciousness, because we’re so busy being filled with phenomena, deeming it pleasant or unpleasant. Consciousness just notes, is always present and is full of potential but, at the same time, it is empty of contaminating concepts. It is purely aware. That is what is termed ’empty cognisance’. The emptiness of consciousness does not create anything; it sees the nature of creation as being emptiness itself – subtle matter changing form, due to causes and conditions, within the emptiness of space.

We’re so busy and involved in looking at things and interpreting them that we become indifferent to the empty, cognisant essence that is seeing. That is our constant reality – and our constant confusion.

Whatever we see has no permanent reality;
everything comes to pass.

That which sees
– that which is purely aware –
is emptiness of consciousness.

The moment now is also empty;
it is the pure light/clarity of spontaneous presence.
The sheer joy of being.

The challenge is to not become bound by enjoying. 🙂
We are all work-in-progress.