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Old 01-07-2007, 04:07 AM   #6 (permalink)
Victoria
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Originally Posted by dcaldwell View Post
When you enter into a state of emptiness (no-thought), you don't experience or can even observe thought or emotion. Those don't exist as part of your true self, and neither does time in the linear-sense. Can you know you're in a state of emptiness? No, of course not. If you think you can, you're not in it. There's a reason it's called emptiness/no-thought!

Any realization you may have entered a state of emptiness is in the after-effects. But as long as you want or need it, it will always elude you.
I can attest to this being true from experience, as I didn't intend it to happen; I realized it did afterwards!
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