These days, after a diamond sutra chanting and Dharma talk by Shifu, i've been feeling an intense sense of emptiness. I keep recalling shifu's words that everything is actually just an empty shell. Yet as I go through life, I do so pretty much as a normal person. The Truth is, all is empty, empty of substantiality, empty of substance. All things without exception are thus. At such a time, nothing is important anymore and you know there is nothing to cling to. When u realise you are clinging to something by habitual energy, reminding yourself of this truth or using this truth to break down the thing you are attached to, you find that whatever you are attached to automatically distintegrates and breaks apart. But, only if you notice, and decide to do so.
Once in a talk, someone asked Shifu what is the meaning of life. Shifu said there is no meaning.
If everything is empty, then of course there is no meaning. After all 'meanings' are imposed on things by us. It is we who make things meaningful. In fact, it is all fabricated on the basis of insubstantial empty things.
So the question remains, why do we live in this world? What are we to do now?
When one's life loses all meaning, it is actually quite similar to the start of depression, before depression sets in. The emptiness is similar. However from this emptiness, there are two ways to go. Embracing the emptiness, recognising it, and choosing to stay happy, or rejecting the emptiness and think that you have lost everything, go into shock and then becoming depressed over it. In fact, nothing has changed. Everything has always been meaningless and empty.
Yet since meaning is created and decided upon by us humans, from this point on, you can actually decide what meaning you want to give to your life. So the question is, what do you want to do with your life?
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