Buddhist or not, the real problem is following the hatred culture. If you don't care you are deceiving someone, you are forever stuck in a bubble of suffering, the Samsara, even if you feel good about that. You have two choices: get out or stay in. If you stay in you have embraced darkness. Thus, get out and come to light. The moment we realise embracing suffering is deceiving the self, it is the moment we understand why any illusion is a fabrication of our own mind.


Emptiness is a wonderful concept that is in the centre of the understanding of the self, and our own suffering. It has everything and nothing, depending on the perspective we observe it, even when we know we have no means to do that. I understand emptiness as the true balance, the ultimate peaceful state representing the perfection of wisdom, which is described by the Heart Sutra in the core of Buddhism. I like to use an analogy to promote a better understanding about what emptiness is, using the theory of relativity, and our own perspective as an observation point, which implies our own realisation concerning a peaceful state our mind could achieve in the present moment.


From our own perspective and relativity we could start trying to observe something that is beyond the perception of our body and mind, e.g., trying to observe how life is in a location 7000 miles away. If we use our senses present in our body we observe nothing, as it is not possible for our body to capture anything from that distance with no external help. However, when we use external help, e.g. an advanced communication system, we could see there are things happening in that place we could not observe with our own senses, which has no impact on our own life in the present moment, implying everything that is happening represents nothing we could observe in our own perspective and relativity. Thus, things that are changing but cannot be observed, causing no disturbance in the associated scene, are in balance by definition, and empty by comprehension.


When we step out from that analogy to use our mind for asking what emptiness is, we could take the impermanence of the universe to understand it is the ultimate peaceful state that everything is in change and in balance, representing that no change can be observed with the comprehension we have about the universe in the present moment.


A peaceful state of mind is then a wonderful state another could not describe, observe, analyse, and understand properly with no help of the self. Buddha, the enlightened one, indicates in his teachings that everything is impermanent, i.e. in constant change. The word nothing, and the concept of constant change, become incompatible by analysing their literal meaning. However, freeing the mind from that literal conditioned way to see the world around the self allows the understanding about what Buddha was disseminating with his teachings.


The moment we realise embracing suffering is deceiving the self, it is the moment we understand why any illusion is a fabrication of our own mind.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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