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Originally Posted by ethereal  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? |
Your description sounds like you've seen emptiness. It is very much a non-experience outside space/time. And you've noticed it's not an experience, yet you're still treating it as one. Looking for a state is looking for an experience. Nothing can persist forever, everything is moving and changing.
It's hard, because the mind wants to focus on the side affects of the realization, which is the state it provided. But that's unimportant. To focus on sustaining the state is to miss the realization altogether. There really is no such thing as 'correct practice' but I'd say relax, and realize what you know. Then be what you know. It comes back to oneness. If you take a look really deeply, do you realize everything to be one? And then there's still a 'you' and 'them' when you walk around? If so, it's very simple, close the gap.
Every moment is a moment in which you are able to be an expression of the emptiness you are.