The Conscious Power of Emptiness

We experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance. When we settle back, not identified with anything as I or mine, then this union of emptiness and awareness is so apparent. So there's one image which describes this movement from attachment to awareness. From the deluded mind of a self-center to the awake mind of zero-center. And this is the image of ice and water. Mmm appropriate today. You know what is ice like? Ice is hard. It's solid. It's frozen. Look through it and you see the world. The union of its empty aspect and its knowing aspect. We could call it the cognizing power of emptiness. This is the