You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

CHApTER 16
The Heart is emptiness
“Hrdaya here does not mean the physical heart, but the deepest
consciousness. It has been called hrdaya or heart because it is the
center of reality. It is the light of consciousness in which the entire
universe is rooted. In the individual, it is the spiritual center.”
(Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam, p. 95)
This particular statement is of the utmost significance.
The BIG EMPTINESS IS THE HEART. It is beyond
qualities and attributes. The heart, because of most
western associations is associated with either personal love
or unconditional love. Recall that the cornerstone of Buddhism,
“Form is none other than Emptiness, Emptiness is none
other than Form,” is called the Heart Sutra, because the BIG
EMPTINESS -as THAT, undifferentiated consciousness is the
Heart. The gnawing inner emptiness, which, because of
resistance to it, causes so many problems and I-dentities, is
considered a pivotal cornerstone for understanding existential
philosophy. However, throughout Quantum Psychology,
this inner emptiness is seen rather as a gateway to the BIG
EMPTINESS. Moreover, this provides the solution to the
existential problem of dread, angst, and falling from being
that pervades 20 th century western psychology and philosophy.
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