/lit/ - Literature

>>19540102
I think that when he says, "Vast emptiness, nothing holy." he's referring to that you're just a consciousness observing everything. There's no 'true' perspective.

So saying that something is 'holy' is wrong, because that's an interpretation of one consciousness. The reality of it is that all perspectives are neither true nor false, because there's not the 'right' one. It's all just a massive void of no meaning which we *attribute* meaning to.

In other words, when the emperor asks who he is, he's asking for the meaning Bodhidharma attributes to his 'self', but since he can't truly give an answer to what Bodhidharma's own little meaningless slice of the void is, he just says he doesn't know.

Then I read
>>19542516
>>19545829
>>19547784
and I realized I said the same thing from a different perspective, kind of proving what I'm saying.

The New York Trilogy

The "tundra" is our spiritually frozen modern society.