Rather than experience the agony that the personality anticipates, what appears to the personality as “nothing” reveals itself as everything, the “shining Void” (called Sunyata in Zen) from which everything emanates. Everything that we know to exist arises from this Void; it is completely empty and yet full of potentiality. It is our freedom and the source of our life. There is no longer a distinction between the observer and the observed: experience and experiencer are one.
