Explorations

… we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal. — 2 Corinthians 4:18

Form is Sunyata, empty. …. Dharma neither arises nor ends, it isn’t pure or impure, it doesn’t grow and it doesn’t shrink. …. By way of the perfection of wisdom (prajñaparamita), the bodhisattva’s mind is freed of clinging. With no clinging, there is no fear; freed from distortion and delusion, ultimate liberation is manifest. — from The Prajñaparamita Hridaya Sutra

The Way that can be experienced is not true;
The world that can be constructed is not real.
The Way manifests all that happens and may happen;
The world represents all that exists and may exist.

To experience without abstraction is to sense the world;
To experience with abstraction is to know the world.
These two experiences are indistinguishable;
Their construction differs but their effect is the same.

Beyond the gate of experience flows the Way,
Which is ever greater and more subtle than the world. — Laozi, Daodejing[1]

1. This is a nifty translation I haven’t seen before, by the way. Definitely avoids mystic goonishness. [↩]