A flower vase is useful because of the space inside it that holds the flowers, and that very space, which is emptiness, I’ve come to value tremendously.  There is a way of living innate to everyone on this Earth that mimics the emptiness inside a vase, and yet with that emptiness, anything is possible.

The master describes himself as an idiot in the Tao Te Ching because his mind is so empty, and yet he wasn’t born that way, but came to prefer it through the suffering of anything else but that way of mind, that way of emptiness.  Suffering is what leads you to a center you have in yourself innately.  And yet this idiotic empty mind is harmony, peace, and a pathway for not only the self to end suffering, but for all.

When we are born, we are more unaware of our own self in relation to what we perceive.  First we perceive outward, and from that perception we become aware of ourself, though as life goes on because of that perception outwards, we develop a sickness of some sort which some have referred to as an Ego.

With this sickness, this ego, we learn to identify with this false center of self, and lose the harmony and peace of what is our true center.  All aberration, sickness (both in mind and body), anger, anxiety, hatred, and malice derive from this false center more or less and yet almost everyone in this world identify themselves in this false center of self.

This false center is important, although your true center remains silent, and it should remain silent and empty and can be defined as what is “not”.  And this is where all misery lies.  We identify with “what is” instead of “what is not”, and yet “what is not” is what really is true, not “what is”.

Again, I said the false center is important because it defines how we interact with others and the universe.  It’s almost as a bunch of computer programming that defines how we interact with others, our jobs, the world and life itself, and when ever we step outside of the rules and conditions of that computer programming, we suffer, or someone else suffers because of us.  Because we (wrongly) identify with this false self as who we truly are, whenever the conditions aren’t met, or even for other reasons unknown to us, we suffer.

And there lays the problem.  Inside of us lays our true center always perceiving and always watching from nothingness, with no words or definition on how to describe our true self, because this center is undefinable because it lays outside everything that is defined.    From nothing comes everything.    This nothing is God, and yet it lies before God, because God is defined.  The word God is a definition of something undefinable, and yet I am using all my words here to point at something so you may understand and recognize the inherent void inside your soul that everything comes from and yet nothing is there.    I am pointing at a point in the vast oceans of the world that can’t be pointed at and yet this point where all oceans manifest from lies inside of you.  It is that point from which you perceive all and yet nothing is there.  It’s empty.  It silent.  It’s everything, because it is nothing.