Emptiness appears in many forms, but if we try to analyze those illusory forms,
nothing is there.
The whole world is surely an envisionment. When we are intoxicated, we feel
the house collapsing or shaking. When we are in a happy mood, we think that the
moon and the trees are singing. When we are sad, we think that the moon and the
lotus flowers are crying. These situations are all subjectively envisioned and
actually have no continuity or substantiality. The moon and the lotus lack all
concepts of happiness or sorrow or beauty or ugliness. Even though we investigate
each and every part of them a hundred times, we will not find beauty and
happiness anywhere. They are nothing but envisionment. They do not exist in
truth. Buddha shows that the three dimensions of spatial extension exist in a single
mustard seed in such a way that the mustard seed does not expand and those
dimensions do not contract. This is not an illusion that is out of accord with nature
as is, say, the performance of a magician; it is the actual state of seemingly
concrete objects. In The Treasury of the Dharmadhatu, Longchenpa says,
The creativity of luminous mind, pulsating outward and inward,
Being nothing at all, yet appearing as everything whatsoever,
Paints magnificent, amazing, magical emanation.We need a little confidence. If we demand visible and audible proof, then perforce
we remain in samsara. In The Wish-Fulfilling Treasury, Longchenpa says,