Can you get hold of Emptiness?
SEKKYO said to one of his monks, “Can you get hold of Emptiness?”
“I’ll try” said the monk, and he cupped his hands in the air.
“That’s not very good,” said Sekkyo. “You haven’t got anything in there!”
“Well, master,” said the monk, “please show me a better way.”
Thereupon Sekkyo seized the monk’s nose and gave it a great yank.
“Ouch!” yelled the monk. “You hurt me!”
“That’s the way to get hold of Emptiness!” said Sekkyo.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Rather than getting a hold of emptiness you must become part of the emptiness. Release your expectations of what and where emptiness is.After the pull to his nose the monks was no longer thinking about how to prove he had control over his idea of emptiness. The pain made him release his conscious ideas and gave him another chance to discover emptiness.