Emptiness

The tension we house sullies our perceptions and conceptions to such a degree that the world we experience is no longer the real world but one largely of our own making. This means that nothing can be believed as true: our senses are flawed – biased – and our interpretations even more so. So how do we proceed? Softly. With a flexible feeling (for belief). We believe but set nothing in stone. We live now as best we can and leave analysis, generalization and philosophizing – all terribly idle occupations designed to give us an unfair advantage but really just giving us an excuse not to be present – behind us. The feeling is of seizing the moment the way the empty foot seizes the ground. This is what emptiness is: a readiness to fill; the same way that fullness is a readiness to empty.