"We live in a confusion. The world does not exist the way it appears to. Sensory appearances give the impression that objects stand as separate things. Conceptual language powerfully deepens this surface impression and infuses the sense of a concrete, independent nature into what it names, including a self. By an early age, a view of the world as a collection of distinct entities is deeply assumed. To conceive of phenomena as existing in of of themselves and empowered by their own essential nature is very the target of refutation on the path of emptiness teachings. This absence of inherent existence is referred to as emptiness and when realized, one sees all phenomena “as like moons in water. ...
"Central to emptiness teachings is the importance of refuting the existence of an inherent self. This sense of an inherent self is usually seen as a distinct entity that can be assigned an individual value, that is born and dies and that steers itself through life of its own volition. When this self is thoroughly investigated using emptiness meditation, it is realized that no such self, no such inherent containment or separation can be found. This realization transfers to all phenomena. The illusion of inherent existence is then revealed like the magician who knows his or her own tricks. One comes to see that the way conceptual language projects the independent appearance of things is a deeply conditioned, but unnecessary misconception. "In realizing that an intrinsic self and other phenomena cannot be found to exist in and of themselves, one sees that there is nothing to defend or attach to. There is the recognition that you are everyone and that everyone is you and so, the realization of emptiness is the realization of compassion, the outcome of its wisdom. One sees that even emptiness is empty of absolute existence so arrives the realization that there is no inherent separation to be found, no mountaintop view, no ultimate truth to be claimed, including a “view from nowhere.” There is no leaving nonduality, as all is a web of dependent interrelatedness. And with the realization that there is no true place to stand, arrives the deep conviction that there is no place to fall." http://www.emptinessteachings.com/Emptiness.html Sent from my iPad Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
