The Inner Peace of Emptiness

Cognisant emptiness is our original, uncontaminated state of mind, at perfect peace. We experience a glimps of this when we stop an activity, but we ignore it for something ‘interesting’ to do.

This cognisant emptiness isn’t a vacant state of not knowing as it is fully conscious, aware and relaxed. It doesn’t get flummoxed, flustered or offended because pure mind is not confused, and therefore has the clarity of insight.

The way in which we then experience the world is very different. We see confounded reactive minds everywhere, lost in a sea of concepts. There are many reasons why we wake up to our reality – and stay awake – and one is seeing the corruption of the world.

We can no longer be hoodwinked, or easily deceived.
Hoodwinked: mid 16th century, originally in the sense ‘to blindfold’, to close the eyes.

Instead of trying to get somewhere, we have arrived at our journey’s end to nowhere. There are still distractions, but now they are warnings which have absolutely no reality.