Emptiness and Objects

[Tiff]

Then I would ask what is your experience of your daily life? Do you feel joy, or sadness? Or are these numb to you?



I talked earlier about suffering, ending it. I mentioned degrees of suffering. I don't feel all suffering has to be ended. Such as, if a loved one dies, and if I looked on this event without any feeling, is not that apathy? And apathy is an awful feeling.



The suffering I think that can be ended is the suffering of seeking essence. Maybe I'm just not as "advanced" as you along the path of transcendence because I still don't see why I would want to stop the experience of empty-being. And that's not meant to sound pretentious. I am honestly saying I still don't see where you are coming from. And as I said, the being referred to is acknowledged as not having essence but still sees that miraculously everything is here and happening so just "be" amongst it. Controlled folly, but on a path with a heart. Mountain is not-mountain then mountain again.



Also a big part of Buddhism is compassion. Being compassionate. This is hard to do without any attention to being, wouldn't you say? And without compassion there is no beauty. Balance is another aspect. Not taking to any extremes.