Be Emptiness

Be emptiness:

Chuang Tzu instructs: Be emptiness, that is all.

and with ease we follow this instruction, no practice needed to be exactly what we are. Yet for clarity we seek an understanding, a wish to better know our real essential nature. The Great Way only points to the obvious though, urging realization through observation of the subtle ways of the natural world and how we belong to such a perfect order.

the way is seamless.

to be emptiness, that is all.

there’s no need to complicate this, for me to offer any version of my own. Everything is empty of any true, inherent quality. Including us. The Tao points to nature for it’s point to be made, to watch how seasons change in seamless order, a tree’s response to each shift without a qualm. To watch a year’s passing is to see that nothing is set as permanent, no lasting quality that clings to the way things are. Winter is empty for the possibility of a flowers bloom in spring. A tree refuses to cling to any seasonal condition but simply responds to what each days offers, gradual in its adaptation. Only by an emptiness of any lasting essence is this allowed.

life is more clearly seen as motion.

to be included as this is to know ourselves more truly — we are empty too and are served by this for our own seasons of…