What does it feel like to awaken spiritually? | Eckhart Tolle
- Shunyata in Buddhist Sanskrit is "emptiness," [recognizing the impersonal in all things], but that doesn't sound nice to Eckhart's ear. Empty your cup a the Zen master can fill it up? Tolle prefers "spaciousness," the spiritual dimension or consciousness. It is better than any worldly achievement, whatever success, whatever failure.
It is all reminiscent of that spiritual punk rock band, Saccharine Trust, led by twisted existential evangelist Jack Brewer who, in "Success and Failure," sings:
LYRICS: Delicate moment/ Saw you again/ Leap year summer/ Presence drew in/ Flies of success/ Squandered about/ Ritual fashion/ Leaving no doubt/ You were a hit/ Plain to see/ Busy boulevard/ Hidden street/ I prayed lightly/ Weaved my path/ Raise no question/ How I survived/ The aftermath/ But I see no reason to covet/ Cause I'm just thinking/ It all seems so amusing/ Failure and success/ Laugh the day/ Meet again/ End up on the park bench/ Exactly where I'm at now/ Unnoticed/ Wonder how/ Bargained your way/ Pacts that bled you/ No thoughts/ What they've made you/ Success has sewn/ A hand to your back/ Paid what price/ For the path/ We traveled/ But I see no reason to covet/ Cause I'm just thinking/ It all seems so amusing/ Failure and success/ Success and failure/ Failure and success/ Success and failure/ Failure and success/ Success and failure
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