08-10-2021, 06:37 PM
(08-10-2021, 05:29 PM)Sacred Fool Wrote:(08-10-2021, 05:06 PM)Ming the Merciful Wrote: AS IT IS.
Yes, and a person's ability to perceive consciousness as it is is a function of their ability to encompass their own capacity for consciousness, which is what the quotations above discuss. Emptiness, great or small, is not a real thing in itself, rather, it reflects back to the perceiver some aspects of self, of its own capacity for consciousness.
Then the question arises, do we create our own Universe and the illusion of existence? Everything is perceived in Mind and the Mind is capable of encompassing the seen, (and the unseen). I exist, (therefore I exist). Everything outside of my "Self" is the "Emptiness". Sacred Fool, I cannot perceive your Emptiness because I have not created it, and it is of your own creation within your Mind. Therefore, from my existence, you then become part of the illusion, and that follows for everything else, (created and the uncreated). This is when it must become Transcendental and we are meeting on a Common Ground. Spirituality is somewhere within that place of Transcendentalism. The "Great Mystery", and the Great Mystery continues.