Form here is emptiness, and emptiness indeed is form.

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‘O Śāriputra,’ he said, ‘form here is emptiness, and emptiness indeed is form. Emptiness is not different from form, form is not different from emptiness. What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form.’

Source Smaller Pragñâpâramitâ-hridaya-sûtra · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to the Smaller Pragñâpâramitâ-hridaya-sûtra (the Heart Sutra), the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara explains to Śāriputra, a disciple of the Buddha, that form and emptiness are not separate: nothing exists in a fixed and isolated way, everything is connected and in motion. Today, when a situation or a person seems stuck to you, remember that it is not fixed and look at it with more lightness and openness.

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