Imagined Cultivation and Realization Are of No Avail

Online, there are all sorts of tunes about emptiness, extolling emptiness in the most extravagant terms, but in reality, no matter how loudly people shout about various kinds of emptiness, the mind can never be emptied. Only by personally realizing emptiness and seeing emptiness can the mind begin to empty bit by bit. Without realizing emptiness, everything is mere sloganeering—just imagination and conceptual thinking, which is of no avail. As for the actual methods of practice, having never practiced them, no one knows how to genuinely cultivate or genuinely realize; it is all imagined practice and imagined realization. Tracing it down to the root, the reason is insufficient merit and inadequate conditions.