Imagined Cultivation and Realization Are of No Avail

Online, there are all sorts of tunes about emptiness, expounding emptiness in the most dazzling ways. Yet in reality, no matter how loudly they shout about various kinds of emptiness, the mind can never be emptied by that. Only by personally realizing emptiness and seeing emptiness can the mind begin to empty itself bit by bit. Without realizing emptiness, it is all mere slogans, all imagination and thinking—of no avail. As for the actual methods of practice, having never cultivated them, they do not know how to practice or how to realize; it is all imagined practice and imagined realization. Tracing it back to the root, it is simply that their merit and conditions are insufficient.