Emptiness is Form
Form is Emptiness
These sentences come from the Heart Sutra,
One of the most powerful and complete teachings of the Buddha
Describing the nature of our reality and
The most obvious thing, the most simple thing - who we are,
Both Emptiness and Form,
Consciousness and Creation,
Awareness and Density,
Immaterial and Matter,
Nothing and Everything,
Apparition and Dissolution,
Unseen and Seen,
Invisible and Visible,
Unknown and Known
Intangible and Tangible.
But what is this question 'Who am I?'
I am both the body and consciousness.
I am Shiva, the eternal principle of space
And Shakti, the power of creation.
I am Life force,
Unseparated from the life current flowing within me.
I am what I was in the womb,
This unified consciousness including everything.
I am what I was before the schism,
Between the polarities,
Good and bad,
Masculine and feminine,
Mind and body.
The separation
Between me and others,
Between me and the earth.
During this schism,
I took refuge in the known, in the mind,
Out of fear,
Needing to dominate,
To control,
To know
What cannot be-
Life force,
Death,
Creation,
Constant ephemeral unfolding.
The breath is the bridge between our polarities,
Between our body and mind,
Between our sensations, emotions and silence,
Between our appearance, our incarnation, our form, our body
And our being before the split,
Always and already here,
In the Present moment,
In the eternal vibration current of life.
The breath allows us
To reconnect with our density, our form, our body,
Leaving our head, our mind
To Induce some fluidity
In our tensions and contractions,
Which create the illusion of separation.
By embracing our form, our body and all the appearances
A real reconnection is possible
No longer through the mind
But directly,
By reconnecting with the source of Life current within us,
Pulsating
In our body, our sensations.
From this place, from our body,
Emptiness is Form
Form is Emptiness
Can be Lived and Known no longer from the mind
But AS what we are.
Bindu
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