Emptiness and Objects

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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! Longchenpa







What is this absence Longchenpa is referring to?

This "vivid display of absence" ......look closely. Break through is in these very words!