This Particular Line

This particular line: 

perhaps the most famous and meaningful line from any Buddhist text is from the Heart Sutra, which states that "emptiness is form and that form is emptiness". It's a lovely expression and can be studied for a lifetime to reach its meaning. There is a depth here that pulls me to new levels of realization even after years of giving the text, and this particular line, some serious study. With that said, I won't claim to have any grand revelations to share, no wisdom to offer from my own understanding. Mostly, the Heart Sutra leaves me quiet, deeply so, and without need to speak of any insights gleaned. 

it's all too personal, fragile, to speak of. 

at least for now. 

so my writing is really the perimeter, a continuous line of words surrounding my present understanding of this particular line, a description, but not the actual insight. The truth is, I have nothing to share that would make little difference for anyone to read, as every insight is personal, a revelation for ourselves alone. What matters is how we live it, how our lives become a measure of a growing understanding, each insight being a seed that eventually blossoms to greater fields of joyful living. 

...emptiness is form, and that form is emptiness, this particular line hones in to my sense of joy, of knowing myself as capacity for the emergent world and being settled in the appearance of all that arises, serene even in my sense of grief and loss, being intimate with the briefness that life offers. This particular line reminds me to cherish whatever's brought for me to hold, and yet to grasp it all so very lightly, lightly, as nothing in the appearance of form is ever meant to stay ours for very long. With this, it's seen as well that the lightness of my grasp holds the formlessness of the world, nothing ever truly lost, just the changing of appearance. 

and the insights of this particular line...

continue to unfold. 

~

Peace, Eric