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enlightenment is just intimacy with all things.
Emptiness does not mean nothingness. Emptiness means that something is empty of a separate self.
Emptiness means only the emptiness of self, not the nonbeing of self, just as when a balloon is empty inside it doesn’t mean that the balloon doesn’t exist.
This Body is not other than Emptiness and Emptiness is not other than this Body.
Gate, gate, pāragate, pārasaṃgate, bodhi svāhā!”
We must learn to transcend our own views in order to progress on our path.
There is an ancient Indian story about a grain of salt that wanted to know just how salty the ocean was, so it jumped in and became one with the water of the ocean.
Feelings are fields of energy and are constantly changing.
Everything is empty of a separate self. There is a lot of joy in this realization.
God is the ultimate, and emptiness is the ultimate.
No one among us has clean hands.
There is an old proverb that says: Be humble; you are made of dust. Be noble; you are made of stars.
when we can accept the truth, we have peace.
Diamond Sutra says that “wherever there is a sign, there is a deception.”
“Consciousness is always consciousness of something.”
Nirvāṇa is the nature of reality as it is.
Man is made only of non-man elements, and since man has the capacity of awakening, non-man elements have that capacity as well. Awakening just needs the right conditions in order to reveal itself completely.
“No one; the Buddha said there is no self.”
