Once a student asked Joshu: Sir, you teach that we must empty our minds, but I have nothing in my mind; now what shall I do?
The old Master laughed and said: Throw it out!
But I have nothing. How can I throw it out? asked the student.
Joshu said, If you can't throw it out, carry it out! Drive it out! Empty it out! But don't stand there in front of me with nothing in your mind!
The old Master laughed and said: Throw it out!
But I have nothing. How can I throw it out? asked the student.
Joshu said, If you can't throw it out, carry it out! Drive it out! Empty it out! But don't stand there in front of me with nothing in your mind!
Emptiness is not really emptiness: rather, it is the All. It is not negative: rather, it is positivity itself. It is out of it that everything is born and to it everything returns. It is the source and ground of all existence. So whenever I say EMPTINESS I never mean just emptiness! To me emptiness is not the absence of anything but the presence of emptiness itself.
