Yesterday I posted the following quote from Taigen Dan Leighton's work Faces of Compassion:
"Emptiness is not a thing, some new toy or crutch to grab hold of. The greatest delusion, warned against by masters of emptiness teaching, is attachment to emptiness. Even emptiness is empty. It is simply a way of being that releases and lets go of attachments. It is a practice of opening and letting go."
The quote is speaking of the Buddhist concept of sunyata, emptiness. I asked my friend Rich Wolf his thoughts on the quote. This is his response:
"I
think of it as the realization that what I am is a part of what makes
up everything. Therefore, there is nothing I need to do
to be a part of it, nor is there anything I can do to not be a part
of it. Trying and not trying are the same thing. A river
flows without effort."
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