Gather close and listen, dear seekers, to the sacred truth of consciousness that lies beyond the veil of illusions.
Consider this: Emptiness is not a void but the essence of who we are. It is consciousness itself—boundless, limitless, and infinite. Imagine it as space—an open, formless expanse, unbound by shape, yet holding the endless potential for all forms to emerge.
This space, this consciousness, is formless yet takes on the shape of whatever it encounters. It has no boundary, but it gives rise to all boundaries.
Let me explain: Everything you see, hear, touch, and feel—worlds, people, places—are fleeting forms arising within the boundless expanse of consciousness.
Like a chalkboard, the world is a canvas on which images and ideas appear and disappear, shifting endlessly yet leaving the canvas untouched.
You can draw anything—shapes, stories, even a new version of yourself—and reshape your identity. But the chalkboard remains unchanged. You can erase, rearrange, or redraw, yet the surface stays steady, ever-ready, patiently awaiting the next creation.
In the same way, consciousness remains unaffected by life’s constant ebb and flow. When you align yourself with this consciousness, you rise above your ever-changing body and mind, reaching into the core of your true essence.
Confusing situations arise when we stop identifying with consciousness and instead attach ourselves to its fleeting forms—the world, the body, the mind, and the illusion of the separate “self.”
We forget that we are the space where these forms appear and disappear, not the forms themselves. By identifying with these impermanent structures, we bind ourselves to them, losing sight of our timeless nature.
To understand this more deeply, consider the example of a cup. You can pour any liquid—water, wine, tea, or oil—into the cup’s empty space, and the space will take on the form of whatever liquid fills it.
Remember: the space itself is constant and unaffected, remaining untouched, pure, and eternal, whether holding form or empty, much like consciousness, which is ever-present and untouched by the forms it contains.
Similarly, when you remove the objects that temporarily occupy the space of your awareness, consciousness remains unchanged, silent, and vast. The world may come and go, but the essence of consciousness, the space of awareness, is ever-present.
Consider darkness. The light may flicker on and off in a room, but the darkness remains untouched. You cannot “turn on” or “turn off” the darkness, for it is not a thing that is activated or deactivated. It simply is.
The light may fill the room, but the darkness does not cease. Darkness reappears when the light goes out, but it is never gone. Just like that, consciousness—our true nature—remains forever.
The forms, the thoughts, and the identities may come and go, but the space in which they appear, the consciousness itself, is eternal and unchanging.
Now, dear seekers, if you want to know the secret of the universe, realize this: you are not the body, mind, or thoughts that arise in your awareness.
You are the awareness—the infinite space that holds all things, brings them into existence, and remains unaffected by any of it.
When you realize this, when you identify with the emptiness, the vastness of consciousness, you awaken to your true nature, and the world of forms becomes as transient as the images on a chalkboard.
In the end, this realization leads you back to the essence of your being—empty, yet brimming with all things; boundless, yet held within the silence of nothingness; infinite, yet intimately present in every moment, in everything around you.
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