#emptiness
Carruagem (Carriage)©Ricardo Félix aka Photography is Silence Fiction:
The saddest kind of sad is, when your tears can’t even drop anymore and you feel nothing. It’s like the world has just ended. You don’t cry. You don’t hear. You don’t see. You stay. For a second the heart dies.
— The emptiness is the worst.
“I am thankful for all those difficult people in my life, they have shown me exactly who I do not want to be.”
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Indeed, sex
Has an ingenuous way
Of reminding me
That I likely will not
Be seeing you
Tomorrow..
Maileta /// coming and going
Ich ertrinke in den Tiefen meines eigenen Leidens.
23.Juli.2020 um 18:45
I love that feeling.
☆☆ not mine☆☆
Isn’t life beautiful, I think that life is beautiful
Prismatic Cosmos (by t*tomorrow)
Then Ven. Ananda went to the Blessed One and on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One, “It is said that the world is empty, the world is empty, lord. In what respect is it said that the world is empty?”
“Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty.”
— Buddha, Suñña Sutta, SN 35.85
↝https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2019/09/intro-to-emptiness.html↜
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“Because all living beings are subject to illness, I am ill as well.
When all living beings are no longer ill, my illness will come to an end."
Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra
Imagine a sick man confined to a tiny room, visited by countless beings who somehow manage to squeeze inside. While obviously not practicing social distancing, the Buddhist story of Vimalakīrti’s sick room is particularly relevant to our present pandemic.
Continued: https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/05/sick-room-contemplations.html
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The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet —
露の世は露の世ながらさりながら
Kobayashi Issa
Continued: https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/04/world-of-dew.html
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“Living wherever, living however, living whenever, each person contains many possible persons. Every day, the ruling system places our worst characteristics at center stage, condemning our best to languish behind the backdrop. The system of power is not in the least eternal. We may be badly made, but we’re not finished, and it’s the adventure of changing reality and changing ourselves that makes our blip in the history of the universe
worthwhile…”
— (p. 329) Eduardo Galeano (2000) Upside down: A primer for the looking-glass world
Emptiness is the interdependence of all phenomena. In the smallest of particles and seeds are infinite possibilities.
Continued⇒https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2019/09/intro-to-emptiness.html
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Enter the void. By this, we don’t mean absolute oblivion or total annihilation, but a complete transformation of all one previously knew that will nonetheless prove to be revolutionary.
Śūnyatā, by the Buddha’s definition, is a radical emptiness that transforms beings from the inside out.
Continued⇒https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2019/09/intro-to-emptiness.html
The emperor of China asked a renowned Buddhist master if it would be possible to illustrate the nature of self in a visible way. In response, the master had a sixteen-sided room appointed with floor-to-ceiling mirrors that faced one another exactly. In the center he hung a candle aflame. When the emperor entered he could see the individual candle flame in thousands of forms, each of the mirrors extending it far into the distance. Then the master replaced the candle with a small crystal. The emperor could see the small crystal reflected again in every direction. When the master pointed closely at the crystal, the emperor could see the whole room of thousands of crystals reflected in each tiny facet of the crystal in the center. The master showed how the smallest particle contains the whole universe.
True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed. The self is held in no-self, as the candle flame is held in great emptiness.
-Jack Kornfield
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