May 11, 2024 – C

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Adams Mill Pond 32 — Goodale State Park, Camden, South Carolina
Emptiness is emptying ourselves
of everything,
even the desire to be empty.

Emptiness is nothingness.
Mindlessness.

Emptiness is No Mind.
Buddha Mind is No Mind.
Not knowing it is No Mind.
Not knowing.

Dropping into the deepest sleep.
Beyond dreaming.
Past knowing.
Past seeing/hearing/thinking.

Just being here/now.
Cleansing the doorway of perception.
Being open,
being closed.
Not here, not there.

Been there?
Done that?
Why?
Why not?

What would we remember
if we have been there,
done that?

That is emptiness.

Anything else is just talk.

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Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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  1. I think for many people, the trouble could be not getting the ‘not doing’ part of just ‘being’, because we train our whole lives for ‘doing’ things, more efficient, more clever, more skillful etc. All our efforts focus on improving the doing who life…so suddenly ‘not doing’ anything, we find difficult. The mind keeps popping back in the ’emptiness’ to disturb it (which is just being not doing anything).

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