Fullness

[dwai]

Om pUrNamadah pUrNamidam

pUrNAt pUrNamudachyate

pUrNasya pUrNamAdAya

pUrNamevAvashiShyate

Om shAntih, shAntih, shAntihi

[Completeness is that, completeness is this,

from completeness, completeness comes forth.

Completeness from completeness taken away,

completeness to completeness added,

completeness alone remains.

Peace, peace, peace!]

Edited November 22, 2011 by dwai

[konchog uma]

beautiful!

 

in light of whats been said about emptiness here lately, i think fullness is good to remember as part of the yinyang of reality as we experience it.

 

escapists want to say "form is emptiness" but they forget easily that "emptiness is form"

 

[dwai]

beautiful!

 

in light of whats been said about emptiness here lately, i think fullness is good to remember as part of the yinyang of reality as we experience it.

 

escapists want to say "form is emptiness" but they forget easily that "emptiness is form"

 

Indeed...would it be too wrong to say that the fullness that stays full is emptiness too?

[konchog uma]

Indeed...would it be too wrong to say that the fullness that stays full is emptiness too?

 

i think that all manner of permutations could be concocted

 

its to push the mind beyond words so you could say "slimey orange goat blather freak" for all i care

 

although form and emptiness have a nice ring to it

[Marblehead]

I smiled just reading the thread title. Thanks Dwai!

 

Given that I do speak against the concept of emptiness, I will suggest that the concepts of completeness and fullness are a bit tricky in understanding.

 

The fact that everything is perfect and exactly as it should be at any given point in time, we should never forget about 'potential'.

 

Potential is what allows for completeness and fullness to express themselves in different form.

 

And I will suggest that many of us think we are complete and full but in reality we are just full of it.

[3bob]

I smiled just reading the thread title. Thanks Dwai!

 

Given that I do speak against the concept of emptiness, I will suggest that the concepts of completeness and fullness are a bit tricky in understanding.

 

The fact that everything is perfect and exactly as it should be at any given point in time, we should never forget about 'potential'.

 

Potential is what allows for completeness and fullness to express themselves in different form.

 

And I will suggest that many of us think we are complete and full but in reality we are just full of it.

 

but isn't that a relative and changing reality, besides if one knows they are full of it then one is not really that full of it, even to the point of being empty, an empty which is also full although not a full or empty related to our gas tanks of gas sold at prices inflated by the anti-christ.

[Marblehead]

but isn't that a relative and changing reality, besides if one knows they are full of it then one is not really that full of it, even to the point of being empty, an empty which is also full although not a full or empty related to our gas tanks of gas sold at prices inflated by the anti-christ.

 

Hehehe. True, it is said that if we recognize a flaw as a flaw we are indeed flawless. If we are able to understand the fulness of emptiness then we can also understand the emptiness of fulness.

 

Not sure about the gas prices though because they have come down recently here where I live even though I would agree that they are still inflated. Kinda like when we think we are more than what we truely are by inflating our ego. (I hope I don't take this thread off topic with that statement.)