The Empty Cup of Humanity

Experimental physicists have confessed that the majour component/property of matter and energy alike is nothingness. Seemingly empty space is the fundamental constituent of all that we see, all that we witness, all that we observe, all that we relate to and with. Form is emptiness.

Empty form--like a cup, a chalice, a womb... like the Holy Grail--is empty in such a way that form becomes merely a shell to house and hold something other than itself. Cups are not meant to house and hold and contain cups. The purpose and functional nature of a cup is to house and hold something other than itself.

Perhaps human-cups are similar in that our own empty nature is an openness meant to house and hold something other than what is specifically human. Perhaps our lack/emptiness makes us receptive to spirits, to possession, to memes, to genes, and megathemes. Perhaps our lack/emptiness is functional and effective in the same way that any vessels emptiness is: it renders us capable of holding and containing something other than itself. Could it be soul? Could it be the Wine of Spirit? Could it be the Cosmos? Could it be all sentient beings contained in us, housed and held in our inherent emptiness, coddled like a mother carrying a precious child?

If so, then our emptiness/lack is not a problem as much as a solution: for it allows us to see our 'self' as a functional shell, inherently empty inside, for the purposes of creating a Pearl of Immeasurable Worth and Inestimable Value. The self, then, indeed is empty in the Buddhist sense; just as it is also the domain wherein our Jeweled Nature thrives.