I recently came across this Zen saying on the Facebook page of a friend, and it stopped me in my tracks...
'JUST BECAUSE IT'S EMPTY DOESN'T MEAN IT MUST BE FILLED'!
It instantly needed me to become still, and I wanted to stop and think about all its possible interpretations... But then I read it again and there felt no need to process it any further but just to stay with the idea. Rolling it around in my mind, on my tongue, and finally in my heart I experienced a profound stillness everywhere within, and a sense of quietude and deep peace. If we try to connect with this emptiness, we will see that it is just fine as it is. Not sitting in wait of something to come along to fill it. It's beauty lies in just that, it's being empty.
Applying it to how we humans are, this thought brings a very refreshing contrast with how we continually fill the empty space within with unending mental chatter and spend our days filling every vacant moment with either an action or a thought, never quietening down enough to get a glimpse of our inner world, or to have an experience of a deep rest in the silence of the emptiness within. Try it though - you'll never be the same...
Kiki ;-)
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
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