from Heart Sutra:
"Avalokita, the Holy Lord and Bodhisattva, was moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond.
He looked down from on high, He beheld but five heaps, and He saw that in their own-being they were empty.
Here, O Sariputra,
form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form ;
emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form,
the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness."
Do we merely understand these lines in terms of knowledge, sutras and readings? If we do not truly realize and actually believe in what those lines meant, nothing will enlighten us from the suffering of samsara.
During our meditation practice and after experienced the settlement of calming peaceful stage of consciousness, we had once came into a split second of emptiness which Buddha realized, sustained and transcended two thousand and five hundred years ago. In addtion, the split second of emptiness of no time, no space, no attachment, no subject and object relations and no self has all manifested itself from our own nature of mind during our mindfulness stage of consciousness.
If we have once touched the nature of mind, we can be sure there is the light of truth of the universe that exists beyond the relative reality. However, the question is how do we "be" in the split second of emptiness? Thus, meditation brings the light on the path, leads us aspiration for awakening, and bestows us an inspirational possibility of "being" in the status of empitiness, which describes the truth of universe.
