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ethereal · 11-01-2009, 02:05 AM

For people who have experienced it, what does emptiness feel like? Speaking from the Buddhist perspective.

I think I've stumbled onto what emptiness is, by realizing that I cannot experience it, because emptiness is not an experience. And by realizing that, I seem to actually stumble onto emptiness -- I reach this kind of non-experience experience, which seems like it is nothing and outside of space/time.

However, the state doesn't persist and I have to focus on it in order to get there. I think with practice, the state will stay, and my identity will probably also shift to this emptiness. Also I felt my normal experience "merging" with this non-experience, which I think the heart sutra comments on, with "form is emptiness, emptiness is form, etc."

Is this non-experience experience what emptiness is like?

Any pointers, or information on how to correctly practice?

11-01-2009, 02:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
ethereal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 586	what does emptiness feel like? For people who have experienced it, what does emptiness feel like? Speaking from the Buddhist perspective. I think I've stumbled onto what emptiness is, by realizing that I cannot experience it, because emptiness is not an experience. And by realizing that, I seem to actually stumble onto emptiness -- I reach this kind of non-experience experience, which seems like it is nothing and outside of space/time. However, the state doesn't persist and I have to focus on it in order to get there. I think with practice, the state will stay, and my identity will probably also shift to this emptiness. Also I felt my normal experience "merging" with this non-experience, which I think the heart sutra comments on, with "form is emptiness, emptiness is form, etc." Is this non-experience experience what emptiness is like? Any pointers, or information on how to correctly practice?