Wonderful piece Helen. I’m sold on emptiness as including the ‘presence of absence.’ I wonder whether we might think of it as the ‘absence of presence’ as well (I think I’m might be stealing this from the extremely brilliant Dr Iain McGilchrist). In Zen ‘sunyata’ - emptiness - also translates as boundlessness, spaciousness. I love that. I’m literally writing about it now! Emptiness is full of possibility. Emptiness of self allows for the presence of everything connected and whole
My goodness, so glad I was sitting down reading this…such a poignant piece. And ‘emptiness is not absence, it is enhanced presence’ is stunning. Thank you so much for your very moving words x
Wonderful piece Helen. I’m sold on emptiness as including the ‘presence of absence.’ I wonder whether we might think of it as the ‘absence of presence’ as well (I think I’m might be stealing this from the extremely brilliant Dr Iain McGilchrist). In Zen ‘sunyata’ - emptiness - also translates as boundlessness, spaciousness. I love that. I’m literally writing about it now! Emptiness is full of possibility. Emptiness of self allows for the presence of everything connected and whole
My goodness, so glad I was sitting down reading this…such a poignant piece. And ‘emptiness is not absence, it is enhanced presence’ is stunning. Thank you so much for your very moving words x