{"id":232,"date":"2025-02-01T07:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2025-02-01T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:34:44","slug":"empty-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/empty-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowledge puts the reigns of ritual in the hands of the mind (so to speak), to play consciously with controlled spontaneity<\/a> in order to survive. But there is a point at which we must let go of knowledge, just as an artist lets go of all she has learned, in order to create, and to improvise.<\/p>\n

There is a point at which knowledge ends and we just experience. At that moment, we become attuned to a new center, a center of emptiness, and lucidity. There is a line in the Tao Te Ching which speaks to this:<\/p>\n

Thirty spokes unite in a nave, <\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

but the nothingness in the hub<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

Gives rise to its usefulness, <\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

for thereupon it goes round.<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

The empty hub is all that is immeasurable, around which the matter of the world has formed. It is qualia, like the hexagon in a snowflake, like the mind which is in our body, and like the harmonious ecosystem to which all nature clings.<\/p>\n

To experience this is to improve on survival; it is to live in bliss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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