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How wonderful pure Emptiness is. All Creation streams from It, like an

empty glass that you can drink from forever without it running dry!

Yes, it doesn't make any sense, and that's what's so amazing!

 

Emptiness cannot be clarified, because it is the essence of

clarity.

 

Emptiness writ large, is spaciousness.

 

Emptiness writ small is no-Thing.

 

Emptiness held by a form is capacity.

 

Emptiness holding a form is boundlessness.

 

Emptiness explored is void.

 

Emptiness manifest is everything.

 

Emptiness loved is God.

 

Emptiness can be quite frightening when you're attached to

Somethingness. As that falls away, It feels very different, like a

white movie screen the Universe is projected upon. Or it's like an

empty canvas holding all possibilites, which you approach with a

brush, whittling away the potential images until the one you paint is

the one it presents.

 

Meister Eckhart wrote that when our soul is pure and empty, God cannot

fail to shine in it, just as the sun cannot fail to shine on a

cloudless day.

 

I'll stop with a thought from Lao-Tzu:

 

Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;

It is the center hole which makes it useful.

Shape clay into a vessel;

It is the space within that maks it useful.

Cut doors and windows for a room;

It is the holes which make it useful.

Therefore profit comes from what is there;

Usefulness from what is not there.

 

 

— Tao Te Ching, 11