In the eastern religious philosophies, in Taoism especially, the notion of emptiness occurs often. There is a big secret hidden in this word and that is why we should devote some attention to it.
     Emptiness seems to be empty. It seems there is nothing in it. However, only few people know that there is everything in emptiness. Emptiness is the opposite of fullness and because each opposite has an element of it's opposite, there is fullness in emptiness and emptiness in fullness.
     Many great fighters used the method of emptiness to fight by means of it. They trained that long until their reactions became fully automatic and they did not have to think about them at all. There was even no thought before their physical action. They won without the thought of victory, without fear of defeat or hatred for their opponent. So with nothing, they overcame everything.
     People who devote to meditations often clear their mind using this method and it enables them to submerge into a deeper mediation without disturbing.
     Just like a vacuum sucks the air, also emptiness can swallow everything even though it does not contain anything. And fullness can one day disappear and change into emptiness.
     Similarly to a civilization on a planet that after it has reached the top of it's development ends in a catastrophe, during which the planet is destroyed by the explosion of some very effective weapon and there will be nothing left out of this planet and civilization, in the same way from the cosmic dust and gases a new planet can come into existence on which a new civilization and new life will start.
     Fullness precedes emptiness and emptiness foreshadows fullness. Where is nothing there will be everything and where is everything there will be nothing one day.
     Emptiness is not only the part of fullness, but also of all the action derived from it to be able to change everything into nothing one day, so that everything could start again then.

     

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