[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Buddhahood and Emptiness

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 14, 2008

BUDDHAHOOD AND EMPTINESS

The final stage of buddha, the experience of buddhahood or total 
wakefulness, cannot exist without the background of shunyata, or 
emptiness. You cannot perceive form and you cannot attain 
enlightenment unless you are able to see that form also contains 
space. And you cannot attain an ultimate understanding of energy or 
vibration or musical sound unless you begin to see that music also 
contains silence. Energy contains action as well as nonaction. Both 
are levels of energy....In the end, in the final experience of 
shunyata, of emptiness or openness, form is  a state of basic 
existence, in which there is no distortion of any kind whatsoever. 
Basic existence is not influenced by primitive emotions or primitive 
beliefs. Everything is seen clearly, precisely, right on the point.

 From "Fruition," in GLIMPSES OF SHUNYATA, page 57.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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