Everything or Nothing

When we talk of emptiness it means absence of solidity, the absence of fixed notions which can not be changed, which have no relation to us at all but remain as they are, seperate.

Form, in this case, is more the solidity of experience. In other words a certain kind of determination not to give away, not to open up. We would like to keep everything intact surely for the purpose of security, of knowing where we are."You are afraid to change" that sort of solidness is form.

So "Form is Empty" is the absence of security; you see everything as penentrating and open. But that dosent mean everything has to be completely formless or nothing. When we talk of nothingness , emptiness or voidness we are not talking in terms of negatives but in terms of nothingness being everything.It's another way of saying "everything" - but it is much safer to say "nothing" at that particular level than "everything"

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