What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

Thoughts and emotions will always arise.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.

By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.