Tag Archives: emptiness

Emptiness Survival Kit. Part 1: Face The Emptiness. Day 7: Your mind is the void.

Posted on January 8, 2021 by lolkin

“People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don’t realize is that their own mind is the void.” — Huang-po 

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Emptiness Survival Kit. Part 1: Face The Emptiness. Day 6: Vacuum is nature’s default state.

Posted on January 7, 2021 by lolkin
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Emptiness Survival Kit. Part 1: Face The Emptiness. Day 5: Being nothing you are everything.

Posted on January 6, 2021 by lolkin

“You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality, but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything. That is all.” — … Continue reading →

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Emptiness Survival Kit. Part 1: Face The Emptiness. Day 4: Super Void.

Posted on January 5, 2021 by lolkin

“Just as stars clump into galaxies and galaxies into clusters, so clusters of galaxies congregate into even larger superclusters, hundreds of millions of light years across. Between these superclusters are equally enormous voids, containing almost no matter at all. One … Continue reading →

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Emptiness Survival Kit. Part 1: Face The Emptiness. Day 3: Invite chaos.

Posted on January 4, 2021 by lolkin

If you want change, you have to invite chaos. 

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Emptiness Survival Kit. Part 1: Face The Emptiness. Day 2: Form is emptiness.

Posted on January 3, 2021 by lolkin

“Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.” —  Heart Sutra 

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Emptiness Survival Kit. Part 1: Face The Emptiness. Day 1: The sun rises in the evening.

Posted on January 2, 2021 by lolkin

Ride your horse along the edge of the sword Hide yourself in the middle of the flames Blossoms of the fruit tree will bloom in the fire The sun rises in the evening. – Zen Koan

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“We aren’t lonely – not because there are others there, but because there is no one at all, including us.” — Ram Dass

Posted on December 20, 2020 by lolkin
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Could you be going through the Dark Night of the Soul? Happy “positive disintegration”…

Posted on October 17, 2020 by lolkin

Alternative, beautiful translation of the poem by Saint John of the Cross here. If you are going through the period of existential emptiness and spiritual depression, likely after a profound mystical experience, you may find this post by Loner Wolf helpful: 7 … Continue reading →

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“When you arrive at non-action, nothing will be left undone. Mastery of the world is achieved by letting things take their natural course.”

Posted on August 22, 2020 by lolkin

It is the poem month here on Nomad of the Universe 😂  I have recently found this verse from Tao Te Ching and I froze. It is describing precisely where I am in my life now. “When you arrive at … Continue reading →

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