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
Love it and will save it. Thank you, Jetsunma.
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
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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.