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A cup is an open-top container, what you fill it is up to you.

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form” states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

Whosoever is empty is whole. Emptiness is the foundation of wholeness. Rightly said, emptiness alone is whole. Can you draw a half emptiness? Even geometry cannot draw a half zero; there is no such thing as a half zero. Zero or emptiness is always complete, whole. Part-emptiness has no meaning whatsoever. How can you divide emptiness? And how can it be called emptiness if it is divided into parts? Emptiness is irreducible, indivisible. And where division begins, numbers begin; therefore, number one follows zero. One, two and three belong to the world of numbers. And all numbers arise from zero and end in zero. Zero or emptiness alone is whole.

Only he who is choiceless can be empty. One who chooses becomes something. He accepts being somebody, he accepts “somebodiness”. If he says he is a thief, he will become somebody; his emptiness will be no more. If he says he is a saint, then also is his emptiness destroyed. This person has accepted to be something, to be somebody. Now “somebodiness” has entered and “nothingness” is lost.
Zen monks have a code, a maxim among themselves. They say, “One who longs to be everywhere must not be anywhere.” One who wants to be all cannot afford to be anything. How can he be something? There is no congruity between all and something; they don’t go together. Choicelessness brings you to emptiness, to nothingness. Then you are what you are, but you cannot say who you are, what you are.