"Sunyata,"
(Sanskrit) generally translated into English as "Emptiness" or "Voidness", is a
concept of central importance in the teaching of the Buddha, as a
direct realization of Sunyata is required to achieve liberation from
the cycle of existence (samsara) and full enlightenment.
Sunyata signifies that everything one encounters in life is empty of absolute
identity, permanence, or 'self'. This is because everything is inter-related
and mutually dependent - never wholly self-sufficient or independent. All things
are in a state of constant flux where energy and information are forever
flowing throughout the natural world giving rise to, and themselves undergoing,
major transformations with the passage of time.
The Great Emptiness or Void is the great potential out of which all things
come. It is the feminine creative force that births all-that-is from the darkness
of her womb. There is stillness in the void—and wisdom—if one listens. Out
of stillness comes inspiration, passion, and creativity..
"Satchitananda," (Sanskrit) is a compound
of three Sanskrit words, Sat,
Chit, and Ananda meaning True Being, Pure Consciousness and Bliss respectively.
SAT is truth. As such it is the destroyer of falsehood, delusion,
deceit and illusion. It leads us from the unreal to the real, out of the veil
and into clarity and consciousness of our true state. SAT restores us from a
limited, constricted, and separate states of consciousness, to our authentic
boundless and natural state of unobstructed beingness. This leads to the merger
of pure
beingness and absolute
subjective experience with pure consciousness and absolute objectivity—a
felt sense of divinity.
Chit is consciousness. It is thus one of the integral ingredients
toward waking up out of slumber and forgetfulness and into our true nature, our
uncontrived/unconditioned true and natural self, a divine Being.
Ananda is absolute bliss. Here all tension, stress, obstruction, bias, distortion, perturbation, conflict, and disturbances have been let go of, surrendered,
removed, and purified.
Shakti and Shiva are reunited in one's own countenance. One reflects and acts
as a the natural transpersonal spontaneous extension, conduit, and expression
of divine presence of, divine love and wisdom reflecting the "reality" of "ALL
OUR RELATIONS".
Ananda (bliss), contentment (santosha), peace (shanti), or nirvana are not goals,
but rather a spontaneous result and expression—a natural aspect of this
transpersonal relationship without a separate subject/object. It
thus symbolizes the Great spiritual objectless relationship-integration -- the
realization of the Great Integrity where the Great Beingness and Infinite Mind
are experienced as a living unity in the present as Great and Sacred Presence. |
