Stretching The Emptiness

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March 16, 2009

Stretching the Sound is Music
Stretching the Movement is Dance
Stretching the Smile is Laugher
Stretching the Mind is Meditation
Stretching the Life is Celebration
Stretching the Devotee is God
Stretching the Feeling is Ecstasy
Stretching the Emptiness is Bliss

Q: What is emptiness?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Emptiness is the doorway between the material and spiritual worlds. It is where you come to understand the nature of the spirit, if you do not know emptiness, then you cannot know the joy of the Being. The knack for experiencing the Being causes emptiness. From the emptiness begins the fullness.

On one side of emptiness is misery and on the other side of emptiness is joy.

That is what Buddha said: “The whole world is misery and what is to be achieved is emptiness.

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