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 becoming. Through this we are allowed to grow through body and mind, never set to any permanent frame of thought or age. We are free in our response to what life offers, attuned as a creative force to each days opportunity and losses. 

to be emptiness is true freedom.

and again, its already what we are - we're not separate from nature, not apart from any other aspect of life. We're motion, just as clearly seen as any season. Chuang Tzu is asking us to relax and be only what we are at every moment. We are capacity for every situation that arises, openness for events to play through, empty of any true self for the selflessness of our reality to be. All this without effort. 

it's exactly what we are,

right now. 

~

Peace, Eric