In Emptiness, Fullness

In emptiness – fullness

In silence – song

In stillness – movement

Going, coming, sleeping, waking, empty, full

Speaking, listening, bitter and sweet

The same, in essence.

This much is known

And old truth and new

Kindness is the way

Love, the display

Meaning in method

A blessing for today

Let’s try it.

Let’s try it.

This way

© Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

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2 thoughts on “In Emptiness, Fullness”

  1. Verse by the Sixth Patriarch (Hui Neng), on emptiness:
    (from The Sixth Patriarch’s Platform Sutra, Chapter 1)

    Fundamentally no wisdom-tree exists,
    Nor the stand of a mirror bright.
    Since all is empty from the beginning,
    Where can the dust alight

    http://j.mp/cags3B

    Note: The Emptiness with which we are concerned here is not the emptiness of voidness, it is the emptiness that provides the source of the existence of all phenomena. It has not name and form, but in it there is nothing that is missing/lacking from it. For lack of better terminology, in some instances, we call it “self-nature.”

    Again, Hui Neng, expresses this in the following verse:

    How unexpected? The self-nature is
    originally pure in itself.
    How unexpected! The self-nature is
    originally neither produced nor destroyed.
    How unexpected! The self nature is
    originally complete in itself.
    How unexpected! The self nature is
    originally without movement.
    How unexpected! The self nature
    can produce the ten thousand dharmas.

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