Emptiness – Between This And That
We spend our entire lives comparing ‘this’ to ‘that’ – judging, evaluating, reasoning – trying to achieve satisfaction. We never notice the gap in between, of just seeing before we leap.
Shunyata or emptiness
is our undisturbed, natural, neutral state,
where we couldn’t be happier.
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Good morning Tony,comparing ‘this’ to ‘that’ is directly using their names.In our thinking we subtittle everything the way the criminal God of Genesis ordered us to do. To “see” directly is something that (rarely) is coming, all by itself, not something that “I” decide to do. When “I” exist all evaporates… How can someone empty willfully to see?
That’s an interesting question.
Seeing directly is mere awareness, or pure consciousness, this is our natural being. It is present before any decision is made.
We have to be careful here as we can easily mix metaphors, especially when we are aware of the Vedic self and the Buddhist non-self.
They aren’t different, but a different approach.
So, in the Vedic tradition there is a self and a Self. Little self is ego, while ‘Self’ is pure consciousness.
Wilfulness comes from the mind that has fixed the brains pathways. Brain and mind (full of ideas) are impermanent and so have no reality, they are just a functioning mechanism.
All the while empty consciousness look on in its natural state of just seeing, before anything is decided upon.
Our natural state is uncontaminated awareness.
The wilfulness is usually an echo in the mind from our past, that keep us churned up.
The moment we notice this, we (pure consciousness) are free and back in charge.
Tony 🙂