Emptiness and Objects

[The Fool]

Very good post Lex! And, Namaste!

Allow me to add this quote to it from the opening of Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection :

First let me tell you about "absence",
the absence that is essentially emptiness:
in the super-matrix of pure mind that is like space
whatever appears is absent in reality.

In the universal womb that is boundless space
all forms of matter and energy occur as the flux of the four elements,
but all are empty forms, absent in reality:
all phenomena, arising in pure mind are like that.

Magical illusion, whatever its form,
lacks substance, empty in nature;
likewise, all experience of the world, arisen in the moment,
unstirring from pure mind, is insubstantial evanescence.

Just as dream is part of sleep,
unreal gossamer in its arising,
so all and everything is pure mind,
never separated from it,
and without substance or attribute.

Experience may arise in the mind
but it is neither mind nor anything but mind;
it is a vivid display of absence, like magical illusion,
in the very moment inconceivable and unutterable.
All experience arising in the mind,
at its inception, know it as absence!

Just as the objective field is absent in reality,
so "the knower"--in actuality pure mind,
in essence an absence--is like the clear sky:
know it in its ineffable reality!