This Empty-Full Presence

Love is always the subject. Everything else can be objectified. Only this spacious empty-full Presence cannot. It is intrinsically mysterious; unknowable. As for everything else, it can be objectified. It can be objectified as God as the world, as me etc. The trick is not to separate the two, not to divide the two, not to create dichotomies, not to create hard lines between the true self and the false self, between emptiness and form.

Unity is the natural effect that Love has on everything. Love is unifying. Presence or Love doesn't resist at all. It allows everything to coexist. It is not at odds with anything. It has no adversaries. The mind has adversaries. Presence has none, not even the mind. It is no more antagonistic or adversarial than space. Whereas creating adversaries strengthens a separate identity, living as this empty-full Presence weakens it.

This Love, this empty-full Presence is a constant phenomenon. Naturally, you are aware of everything, thus, this Love shows itself to be ever-present. This aware, loving Presence is what you are. The insanity of seeking is that naturally, without effort, we are aware of everything, yet we try, with much effort, to become aware of something of which we are not yet aware. Consequently, seeking begins. We conjure up a mental idol of the Subject, then set about looking for it as an object. Seeking seems necessary because we have conjured up a mental idol of the Subject and have projected it "out there." In our ignorance, we turn the subject, which is our own self into an object of scrutiny.

This, of course, cannot be done. The body can become an object of scrutiny, thoughts and feelings can become objects of scrutiny, the senses and the world can become an object of scrutiny, but this empty-full Presence cannot. One marvels at It. One marvels at just how inscrutable It is. It is intrinsically mysterious and unknowable. Although unknowable in a rational sense, we are never not intimate with It. Seeking is, in fact overlooking what we're already aware of. It is forgetting the immediate and chasing after the transcendent, or worse an idea which we have conjured.

After awakening, if a division is maintained if enemies and dichotomies are insisted upon, it is because one is not respecting the innocence of this empty-full Presence, rather he has projected his ideas upon it, and like a screen, it holds his projections until he returns to respecting the natural innocence of Presence, which in turn respects all else.

Love, or this empty-full Presence, doesn't insists on division. It doesn't insist on separating true from false, good from bad, acceptable from unacceptable. It just loves. It just hold's space for all the supposed differences. This empty-full Presence naturally allows everything as it is. When we are aligned with Presence, when we are surrendered to it, we are in harmony with all beings. When we are not in harmony with It, that is ego. When we are in harmony with this empty-full Presence, we are Presence Itself.

In reality, Love or this empty-full Presence is all there is. Everything can be transformed or transmuted in to It, because everything is It, in the first place. Everything that exists is just this Love or empty-full Presence in disguise. If there is any process it is not the process of becoming. It is quite the opposite. It is the process of introducing everything to this Love so that all can be that which it was initially. Introducing everything to this Love is like throwing wood on a bonfire. Everything is changed into its original substance, that substance being this empty-full Presence or Love.