Ah, yes, it’s normal to find that uncomfortable for a while—sometimes even scary. It can help just to know that it’s to be expected. The freakout passes in time, you will get to enjoy emptiness, and in retrospect it’s valuable progress.
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Beyond emptiness, “form reappears”—you notice that reality continues to do its thing, even though it now appears somewhat laughably transparent. You can enjoy the colorfulness of its dance without taking it as seriously as before you realized emptiness.https://vividness.live/2013/12/12/emptiness-zen-tantra-dzogchen/ …
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Beyond no-self, you also reappear, although as an intermittent pattern of interaction rather than the seemingly solid, continuous lump you previously experienced.https://meaningness.com/self
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This podcast with
@OortCloudAtlas and@ShinzenYoung has lots of good advice about how to deal with the freakiness of first encountering emptiness. http://deconstructingyourself.com/podcast/dy-007-enlightenments-evil-twin-guest-shinzen-young … Both@OortCloudAtlas and@ShinzenYoung are excellent teachers and I believe both work by Skype if that helps0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Well, that’s great, actually! I had that experience immediately… I’d been reading some Zen text that was total gibberish. First major experience of emptiness, then read the same text the next morning, and it was perfectly straightforward and obvious. I couldn’t stop laughing…
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