Originally Posted by
JohnsonCM
Allow me to better explain what I meant. If I understand the basic principals of Zen ( a lofty undertaking, to be sure ) then I understand it to be along these lines:
Zen is emptiness, but only so far as that emptiness can be called "the space between" things and attachments. Much like the empty space inside a room with nothing in it. It is defined only by the walls, ceiling and floor. Without those walls (which could be said to be like the walls we put up in our mind made out of attachments, conceptions, etc.) that 'space between' them wouldn't be held back by anything, and would actually encompass everything, which is the natural state of that 'space' in the first place. In that way Zen is emptiness, but since that same space is actually found between every thing we can conceive, Zen is also everything.
I could be off a little, like my profile shows I'm still a little young here, but I look forward to hearing everyone's responses and deepening my understanding of the Way.
Gassho,
Christopher.