Emptiness

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The unconscious need of the illusory mind

(the normal thinking mind used in day to day living)

is to fill in the emptiness.

 

Just as the liver sends signals to the brain

when it has nothing to do, and the brain responds

by invoking "hunger"

 

and you shut the brain up by going and getting a feed ..

 

so the mind works the same in all relationships

according to its perception of emptiness.

 

For example ..

 

a child is conceived .. then born,

to fulfill the parent's perception of emptiness.

 

In utero, the projection on the child

is the mother's perception

of how the presence of the growing fetus

fulfills her inner emptiness

 

and so, the child is born and grows up,

continually mirroring back to the mother,

a reflection of her own emptiness ..

 

if it is male, it may be a disappointment ..

if it is female, the child has an even greater responsibility

thrust upon it.

 

In its relationship to both parents,

 

the child may be continually defined and defiled

according to what will satisfy the parental emptiness

 

and thus becomes the manifestation

of the parents unfulfilled inner needs.

 

because they have sucked out of the child

all they can to fulfill their own sense of lack.

 

 

and every time the child seeks to fill its own emptiness

by whatever means, the parent cannot stand the fact that

its fulfillment is being taken away from her

 

("after all I've ever done for you")

 

and disciplinary steps or drugs are resorted to so that

the child continues to fulfill the parent's definition of lack.

 

This, for many, is the Love of a parent for a child ..

 

[ and, of course, as the child grows up and no longer fulfills

the parental lack, (especially if something else has replaced it)

it (the child) has to find some other sensory input to replace

the parental draining of its lifeforce to which it has become

accustomed ]

 

The same applies throughout life ..

in every relationship ..

 

and all of the emotions experiences

are merely based on

whether the other person, or object

satisfies your own self sense of emptiness

 

according to your preconceptions

of how you believe they should be fulfilled..

 

 

Thus external religion and God

is merely an illusion

to fill your own perception of emptiness of Self ..

 

 

So is the Spiritual Search ..

 

with the Dark Night of the Soul merely

the final confrontation with that emptiness

that the mind fears most.

 

Tantra is the re-union with that Self

 

and the experience of Kundalini or Spiritual Emergence

is the inner reversal of your definition of emptiness

as these past beliefs are released from the body

and the Self is realised

 

 

-- Christopher Wynter

 

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