Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness E-Book

Andreas Müller

• Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Seitenzahl: 18

Beschreibung

This booklet is more of a juxtaposition; an apparent comparison of two empty non-messages. Who knows how it was meant at the time. What is reported here - and at best also in the words of the Heart Sutra - is astonishingly simple: What seems to be happening is itself - a blind dance that nobody experiences, but which is everything.

Leseprobe

Content

Preface

„There is no one“

„The Heart Sutra“

The natural reality

Consciousness

An undivided appearance

Nothing is real

There is no one there

Suffering is an illusion

Realisation

Closing words

Source

Acknowledgements

About the author

Preface

‘The Heart Sutra from a nondual perspective’ is more of a juxtaposition; an apparent comparison of two empty non-messages. Who knows how it was meant at the time.

The Heart Sutra seems to consist of (at least) two levels: one in which the circumstances of the ‘teaching’ are described - people sitting together and talking to each other - and one level in which the actual ‘teaching’ takes place.

Because of this impression, only parts are commented on. I will limit myself to the pure teachings.

What is reported here - and at best also in the words of the Heart Sutra - is astonishingly simple. So-called life is astonishingly simple.

What seems to be happening is itself - a blind dance that nobody experiences, but which is everything.

“There is no one”

There is no ‘I’.

There is no ‘thing’, no entity that sits anywhere in our body. Neither in our heart region nor in our brain nor anywhere else in our body is there a real centre. The apparent 'I' gives itself many names:

I, presence, consciousness, awareness, spirit, individual, soul, self, self-awareness.

All these words seem to describe an experience that most people refer to and around which their lives seem to revolve.

‘I need this and that.’

‘If I had this and that, I would be happy.’

‘If my partner was so and so.’

‘If I was so and so’.

‘If I were enlightened.’

This is how this apparent 'I' lives: in search of something higher, truer, more fulfilling.