The essential, primary, value of emptiness, stillness, silence in gaining clarity and realization, enlightenment, awareness, knowledge and understanding regarding what’s what and what is called for here, now, so that we know the right thing to do when, where and how to do it in each situation as it arises is foundational and absolute throughout our life.
We drop into emptiness, stillness, silence and wait for clarity regarding what is called for and what to do about it, and rise up, enter the field of action in doing what needs to be done. Then we drop into emptiness, stillness, silence…
So that we are living/doing out of emptiness, stillness and silence and doing what is called for over the full course of our life. For the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it.
What we meet in the silence is our intuitive realization of what’s what and what needs to be done about it, so that we do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way in each situation as it arises. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ could do better than that.
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