What is the relationship between emptiness and wholeness?
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"Real emptiness and wholeness are not opposites; they are the same state, where letting go allows everything to flow through you."
According to Osho, emptiness has two faces: the one-dimensional emptiness achieved by negating passions (as we perceive in Buddha) and the supreme, innate emptiness revealed by pure awareness. This intrinsic emptiness is multidimensional and appears as wholeness—total, vibrant participation without attachment (as in Krishna). Ultimately, real emptiness and wholeness are the same state: when nothing is clung to, everything can flow through you.
When you stop holding onto anything inside, you become like open space that includes everything—so true emptiness feels like being whole.
Why this matters practically
- Shift from suppression/renunciation to awareness-based freedom.
- Act, love, and take a stand without inner clinging.
- Reframe emptiness as spacious aliveness that embraces life.
- Act, love, and take a stand without inner clinging.
- Reframe emptiness as spacious aliveness that embraces life.
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