Walking across the campus heading to your office a wind comes up. It blows against your skin, cools your arms and face. You bask in its power and think, “This immediate moment is pure and perfect.” And, BAM, the wind goes right through you, at first you feel it in your bones, between muscle and sinew, in the cavity of your chest it howls and echoes in the chambers of your flesh. Then, all at once there is no you for the wind to pass through, and no wind. It is there, you feel the effect but you KNOW the truth. The wind is a condition caused by other conditions. And you are also. This self, this body, this awareness, are all conditions with causes. There is no INHERENT real thing here, just a made up conditional experience based on some other conditional experience just past. Even YOU, this person, is all just a fabrication compiled of previous conditions coming together to cause the illusion of a thing. And so the wind and the self become one, and fly away together in a meaningless, boundless conditional bundle caused by this realization.

This is the reason that the Buddha called things empty. They are not just empty, they are empty of realness. There is NOTHING that is not caused by some previous condition. And therefore there is nothing that won’t be changed by new conditions. Conditions are the causes of new conditions. HAHAHAHAHA… there’s nothing HERE. NOTHING! Just a collection of forms arising from an empty bed of previous forms!!!!

WHOA!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Let the effect of wind be the cause of whatever it pleases. Let it cause leaves to push across the grass. They are simply effects caused by conditions. Let it chill these bones and tussle this head. Let the effect be the cause of a new effect. MEANINGLESS. PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL! RIGHT NOW there is no fear, no fearlessness, no care or carelessness, NO PURPOSE or purposelessness.

Watch out!

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