Practicing Emptiness

Practice, in the spiritual sense, is always one of letting go. There is no real practice of acquiring, changing, or anything like that. Growth in the spiritual realm is about loss, rather than expansion. The more we build our empire and foundation on "me" the greater the fall. On the other hand, our original pure nature requires no change at all. So the practice becomes one of emptying out all identifications, conceptions, experiences, purposes, and ideas to make room for That which is not contained within any of these. When the maturation of consciousness is in place, all things fall away easily and of their own accord. Until that ripening, there is a struggle to attain some pleasurable experience or get rid of some painful experience. To truly practice in a useful way is to just Be Still...to let the endless search for peace settle into the splendor of this Moment- right now. Here, no practice is required, Here, you just be as you already are.