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The Purpose of Buddhist
Emptiness (of inherent existence) Meditation
For meditating read: focusing
attention Meditation
is a means of creating a desired state of dissociation. 1.
Dissociation serves to eliminate or distract from current
consciousness experienced as distressing (Pali: dukkha) 2.
Dissociation serves to enhance binding to (i.e. association, i.e.
becoming one with) a focus not experienced as distressing or experienced as blissful. In other words, meditation produces a benign state of schizophrenia. By meditating on the
emptiness (of inherent existence) of phenomena (as prescribed in the Heart Sutra), the meditator dissociates
from everyday reality described by the Buddha “this mass of suffering”. Occasional meditation on
emptiness (i.e. an occasional (benign) schizophrenic interlude) denies the
reality of the currently experienced everyday world (i.e. by devaluing its
impact to zero). Occasional denial serves to protect (or relax or withdraw)
the person (or Ego) from occasional (unmanageable) distress. Full-time professional
meditation on emptiness also denies the reality of the world. But the full-time
meditator’s goal is complete and permanent withdrawal from the everyday world
of ‘arisen, hence ceasing’ phenomena (i.e. into full-blown schizophrenia),
therefore from distress as such. Intense
(i.e. @100% = one-pointed) meditation on (i.e. continuous dissociation
toward) any focus (for instance, the ‘NOW’, any religious idol or notion,
Scrabble, one’s dream, bliss) reduces distress (and orientation within
everyday reality) toward zero, at the same time transmuting the focus into an
absolutely real experience having absolute meaning. Withdrawal (that is to
say, dissociation) from, hence Zero Response to (as non-rebirth within) the
world and the distress it causes is described as Nirvana (Pali: nibbana), or
as peace (i.e. quiescence).
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