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68 - Form and Void
The longer Prajnaparamita Sutra states "Apart from form there is no void; apart from void there is no form." This appears to mean that form is necessary in order that there may be void, and that void is necessary in order that there may be form.
As concepts this is evident, for void is the absence of form, and form is the absence of void, and neither part of an interdependant pair of concepts can exist, or appear to exist, without the other.
In fact, however, we may understand that neither exists - for both are objects, and the absence of on interdependant object requires the absence of the other. As subjectivity - the void of Prajna - they are one, or potential as a pair, and subjectivity objectivises both together or neither, since all objectivisation is via the skandas and dualist.
Wei Wi Wei
Ask the Awakened: The Negative Way
Friday, September 17, 2010
September 17
My bread is hunger,
my banner fear,
my clothes are wool,
and my prayer in winter is at sun rise,
and my lamp is the moon.
My ride is my legs, my food and fruit whatever
the earth produces.
I spend the night and have nothing,
I awake in the morning
and have nothing,
and there is no one upon earth
more richer than I
al-Ghazali, Sufi Mystic
from
The Words of Jesus: Reflections for Every Day
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Three
Those who wish to embody the Tao should embrace all things.
To embrace all things means first that one holds no anger or resistance toward any idea or thing, living or dead, formed or formless.
Acceptance is the very essence of the Tao.
To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself of any concept of separation: male and female, self and other, life and death.
Division is contrary to the nature of the Tao.
Foregoing antagonism and separation, one enters into the harmonious oneness of all things.
Quoted from the
Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
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