Monday, May 3, 2010

Emptiness and Humanness

In our culture and society we put so much attention and energy into becoming somebody, with a deep fear of being nobody.  So the most appropriate medicine for many of us is Emptiness, and the realization of no-self.  While that might be good medicine for somebody clinging to their somebody-ness, it can be nauseating for somebody who gets stuck in emptiness and thus negates his or her humanness.
With a tight grip on emptiness and no-self life becomes very dreary, grey, and dead...what is needed is the realization of the fullness of emptiness only found within this very life, this very human being.  Some "spiritual" people get trapped trying to become nothing and nobody, all the while attempting it with a hollow, miserable sense of self.  Or, in avoidance of being a miserable self, we go about trying to become something bigger or better.
There is a space in which we are neither a nobody nor a somebody, right where the Truth of who one really is remains inseparable from this very life.  We are neither the absolute nor our human experience, we are both our human experience and absolute existence...holding neither side reveals the true non-duality of our Spiritual nature and human nature. 
Finally, Heaven and Earth are not separated at all.

1 comment:

Stephanie said...

Grateful for your wisdom and beautiful written expression...this is completely aligned with my experience...


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