"To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end."~ Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
Monday, January 21, 2008
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Emptiness is such a negative concept in Western thought - think dark, empty closets or basements or caves. The Asian metaphors that refute this are wonderful... the luminous blue empty sky with the clouds forming in it, for example. Tibetan texts have some great ones.
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