Saturday, December 30, 2017

Emptiness Dancing

""There is a saying in Zen, 'When the realization is deep, your whole being is dancing.' You can have an experience of emptiness, but it can be the emptiness of emptiness. A phrase that's used is 'a cool emptiness.' But when it's the true emptiness, your being is dancing. It even goes right through your physical body. Everything is alive again. You are dancing -- the emptiness is dancing.

Then we go deeper into that love and that dance and that joy. Then it settles, and it is still love, dance, and joy, but it settles into something that is quiet and very pervasive. There is a love and a stillness that's just deepening. When awakening happens, the heart has to open.

I think that for realization to be complete it has to really hit on three levels -- head, heart, and gut - because you can have a very clear, enlightened mind, which you'll know in a deep way, but your being won't be dancing. Then, when the heart starts to open just like the mind, your being starts to dance. Then everything comes alive. And when your gut opens up, there is that deep, deep, unfathomable stability where that opening, who is you, just died into transparency.

It's become the absolute. You are That."

~ Adyashanti

Emptiness Dancing
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Photo thanks to Michael Jeffreys

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