- “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
Robert Margolis 