Emptiness (Buddha teaching)

Emptiness

From the book “The heart of Buddha’s teachings by Thich Nhat Hanha”

            “The first door of liberation is emptiness, shunyata. Emptiness always means empty of something…We can only inter-be with everything else in the cosmos (p. 146)”.

            Emptiness refers to no one individual is living separate from another and that beings are simultaneously experiencing numerous possibilities of life together. Like the search engine Google. We are all putting in our own websites into a single large storage house that makes Google a massive exploration of gained knowledge. When we type www.google.com we don’t come to a page of multiple search engines to choose from. There is a single search area to type in our desired search.

            Now the list of websites represents our unique signatures on life. Overall, those websites come out of Google; they are interconnected through Google, and are organized by the massive source called Google. This shows that, yes we have our own unique blueprint, but that blueprint is connected to a large source where everyone’s unique blueprint is organized together.