• “reality” = emptiness (experience stripped of language, conceptualization, ideation, identity)
• living from, writing from, acting from, “reality” = using language-as-“music” (sound) after unarmored experience (sensation)
• emptiness = language stripped of dissociation
• emptiness = experience stripped of preconceptions (dissociation)
• if dissociation (flight from reality) is “built” from originally (infant) unbearable sensation (“pain”, “suffering”), emptiness (reality) is “built” from consciously experienced (integrated) original (infant) “pain,” “suffering” “impermanence” “terror of annihilation”
• emptiness is the absence of dissociation
• emptiness is language stripped of dissociative metaphor
• emptiness is the language of the original (infant) experiencing self after having undergone neurological & psychological maturation (that is, having developed the capacity to experience all sensation without the need for dissociation as defense against the terror of annihilation)
• emptiness replaces dissociation with impermanence (formlessness)
• in which the ground of being prior to form is impermanence
• in which impermanence is the death of the self-as-identity
• and the birth of the Self-as-emptiness
• emptiness reveals the Self (unarmored consciousness, awareness) to its dissociative configuration, identity

Reality

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?

—Rabia Al Basri

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Reality

In the Self, nothing exists between heart & heart

Language is born out of unbearable suffering,

True description from the real taste of suffering.

The one who integrates pre-language suffering, knows;

The one who dissociates, lies.

How can you describe the true experience of Something

In whose presence identity is blotted out?

And in whose being the Self arises?

And who lives as a sign that the Self is born?

–RM

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