On The Nature Of Emptiness - Julian Colgan

On The Nature Of Emptiness

Emptiness cannot be realized

because there is nothing to realize

that is beyond your own diamond forged mind.

Emptiness cannot be seen

because there is nothing that is intrinsically

representative of formless formlessness.

Emptiness cannot be defined

because the nature of defining something

means that there is something that can be defined.

The middle way is not the middle way

when there is a mind to divide and label

something that appears to be extreme as being extreme.

The lotus is empty of a buddha

when the buddha renounces his or her buddha nature.

By saying that a buddha is a buddha,

buddhahood is lost.

Though losing something is empty of meaning,

making senses of emptiness is a meaningless task.

Working for what does not exist,

what does exist is beyond the mountain range of nirvana.

Sitting in a lotus position,

what you are sitting on

is sitting in you.

Every time an argument is made,

a counter argument is nowhere to be heard.

Seeing a rainbow encircled around your mind,

the rainbow of benedictions

is always there because there is nothing there.

Reading many sutras,

the only sutra that is never read

is the sutra of spontaneous 

relinquishments of all destructive desires.

Never looking into future or past lives,

the eternity of buddhahood

rings as clear as a silver bell

when placed in a high location or atmosphere.

Nirvana being a stream

and samsara a bridge,

not one step is needed to cross

that bridge of illusory apparitions.

Already there without being there,

the nature of emptiness is no better than samsara,

for samsara points the way to what is in need

of being seen as empty.

Neither found in the dharma or in the sangha,

emptiness is the perception of non-perception.

That which is eternal is always changing

and that which is stable is always fading.

Governed by the karma of no karma,

set yourself free of needless worries.

Anxious over what does not exist,

what does exist is the union

of a particular nature with no particular nature.

A simple and complex puzzle,

the mind is all there is to know.

 

Julian Colgan (Copyright)

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