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Q: Emptiness has two meanings?
KW: On the one hand,... it is an ...identifiable state of awareness namely unmanifest absorption (nirvikalpa samadhi,
ayin, jnana samadhi, nirodh, classical nirvana) This is the causal state, a discrete state.
The second meaning is that Emptiness is not merely a particular state among other states, but rather the reality
or suchness or condition of all states. Not a particular state apart from other states, but the condition of all
states, high or low, sacred or profane, ordinary or extraordinary.
Ken Wilber
All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Ramana Mabarshi
The Subtlety of Zen
... It cannot be understood by mindfulness. It cannot be reached by talking, it cannot be understood by silence.
Ying - an
... your Original Face is not in here. It is the sheerest Emptiness or transparency of this shimmering display.
If the Kosmos is arising, you are that. If nothing arises, you are that. In either case, you are that.
This nondual state, this state of One Taste, is the very nature of every experience before you slice it up. This
... is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it,
including the effort to 'see it non- dually"...prior to effort and non-effort alike.
Ken Wilber
Finally, when you realize that everything is useless, everything is Brahman, it means you are at the Parabrahman
level, the absolute level. When at that level, you will envision everything as useless, including the Brahman because
the Brahman is also reduced to illusion. Therefore, all these talks, including my own, will be reduced to illusion
when you reach the highest.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
You can never understand this; you can only experience this in terms of your past experience. This is outside the
realm of experience. The natural state is acausal: it just happens. No communication is possible, and none necessary.
The only thing that is real to you is the way you are functioning; it is an act of futility to relate my description
to the way you are functioning. When you stop all this comparison, what is there is your natural state. Then you
will not listen to anybody.
Is there a beyond? Because you are not interested in the everyday things and the happenings around you, you have
invented a thing called the 'beyond', or 'timelessness', or 'God', 'Truth', 'Reality', 'Brahman', 'enlightenment',
or whatever, and you search for that. There may not be any beyond. You don't know a thing about that beyond; whatever
you know is what you have been told, the knowledge you have about that. So you are projecting that knowledge. What
you call 'beyond' is created by the knowledge you have about that beyond; and whatever knowledge you have about
a beyond is exactly what you will experience. The knowledge creates the experience, and the experience then strengthens
the knowledge.
What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this
movement of 'you' is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond, but the beyond can never be experienced
by you; it is when the 'you' is not there. Why are you trying to experience a thing that cannot be experienced?
UG
Die while you live;
live when you die -
and be absorbed into Silence.
If amidst impurity you remain pure,
you shall not be in this world's ocean again.
Rumi
You have accepted this fact right from the beginning when you say I don't know anything. So we are now pointing
out the 'you'; that which says 'I don't know anything' is your real nature, you are That. And that which you know,
which you can perceive with your eyes, is not true. And that which says, I don't know anything, that is your true
nature. You are That, and you cannot find it out as an objective thing. The moment it becomes objective, it is
impermanent, so it is not true.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
That the problem is insoluble is itself the solution.
Ramesh Balsekar
