Tagged with 'emptiness'

The teachings on emptiness are at the heart of the Buddha’s path.

Today, we live in an unprecedented sort of world—a reality completely inverted from any known in the historic past. Our world has been gutted of sense and consistency. Propriety, responsibility, even meaning itself have become jokes to exchange in the cynical dialogues that have replaced profound conversation.

the dissolving of objects
and easing of fixations is peace.
the buddha never taught
anyone anything.
nagarjuna. stephen batchelor translator.

"There is no time, no space – just everlasting Eternity;
I move in direct contact with life, in a permanent present.
I am Pure Energy, without motivations,
The simplicity of existence integrates us completely.

We really encounter Life only through this "now",
Free from the old, we are able to embrace the new.
All this beauty vanishes, when another thought appears,

to remember the moment of the breath passing to another. and the space between. to know love as it cannot be expressed.

I smoked tonight and decided to meditate. It was my first time smoking in a few weeks; three hits off the blunt and I was ripped.

I sat down in meditation and began to follow my breath. I picked up right away on my ego trying to disguise itself as some sort of meditation phenomena. The inner dialog began. I became aware that I had said "Your ego." I turned my attention to this notion.

and in the ensuing discovery of only uncertainty the wholeness is revealed, for the moment one grasps at any belief it eludes as just another passing thought. and perhaps this is the basis for the constant struggle to seek some way of being in this world with its intention of defining outside of that which just happens to unfold in all of its intricate patterns.

A central idea to Buddhism is the concept of emptiness. In understanding emptiness, which some traditions view as an ultimate or fundamental reality to which matter owes its existence, one begins to view their self and their world in an entirely different light.

You empty yourself out
letting go
of everything you thought you were
or part thereof
and what remains?
what is there?
fears
dissolve
and the sense of self
that claimed you
engaged you
defined you
and probably caged you.

did you choose to let go
or was it something that was stripped away
by circumstance
divorce, loss of work, loss of all, loss of...