The nature of all phenomena is empty clarity: emptiness, manifesting vividly, unceasingly. Empty because no fixed, inherent essence can be found, yet each object and being manifests vividly, just like clouds in the sky: empty, yet vividly clear. Emptiness doesn’t mean things disappear—then things would be void, nonexistent. Instead emptiness in union with clarity is unceasing manifestation. Rainbows appearing in all different forms, in the form of the world itself, ever changing.
How then, can there be such persistent suffering around us—a seemingly infinite series of conflicts in our lives and in the larger world?
Like a massive, messy, interconnected knot that is seemingly impenetrable, impossible to untangle.
Yet, if we look very closely at the knot, if we pull it apart bit by bit, a lot of space is revealed inside of it.
With thoughtful, consistent effort, the hairiest of knots can be untangled to reveal no solid core or fixed essence to the conflict.
