Becoming Enlightened within Breakfast Time

by Dhiravamsa

Cultivation of Mindfulness, Wisdom that leads to immeasurable freedom and putting an end to pain and suffering. Nowadays, physicists have reached a conclusion regarding the void asthe most contracted state. So, the void is not empty or devoid, butfull, so exceedingly full and contractedly abundant that we cannot perceive anythingconcrete. Think about this! As we know, the rhythms of the manifested world areexpansion and contraction, or yin and yang in Chinese terminology. How does such a thing occur in terms ofmeditation? The void is not a thing or astate that occurs by itself alone. Rather, it is that appearing phenomenon which is purely perceivedas existing in a narrow but clear and spacious gap between thedisappearing consciousness and appearing consciousness that takes place at alltimes, day and night. Nonetheless, in such a narrow gap or extremely briefpause there exists neither consciousness nor mind-body (nâma-rûpa) components.This also means a networking remnant between the death-consciousness andrebirth-consciousness, which the Buddha calls “suññatâ,” and this is equivalentto the void, or in better terminology, the “fertile void.This happens inexactly the same way as all other internal phenomena such as the mind orconsciousness, which appear and disappear continually when we observe closely,look at intently, and watch silently with continuous, full attention.

345 pages, Paperback

Published June 14, 2017