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Empty.

To conceive of being so causes
one not to be.

To conceive is to grasp.
To grasp is to attach.

When one attempts to achieve emptiness,
and grasps hold of the way of achieving this state,
one becomes further away from emptiness
and closer to stagnancy.

The way can never be grasped to reach a
conclusion, for the way changes.
Emptiness has no conclusion, for even emptiness
changes.

To become empty
is to be inconclusive.
To be inconclusive one
must not hold on to their ways of becoming.

   

Copyright 2007 by Lin Ai Wei