"By virtue of emptiness everything is able to arise, but without emptiness nothing whatsoever can arise." (Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamikakarika)
"He, who at this moment, before my eyes is shining alone and clearly listening to my discourse--this man tarries nowhere; he traverses the ten directions and is freely himself in the three realms. Though he enters the transformations of every state, no one of these can divert him. In an instant of time he penetrates the realm of truth: on meeting a buddha he persuades the buddha; on meeting a patriarch he persuades the patriarch..." (Rinzai, 13th Discourse, The Record of Lin-chi)
The "directions" are space and the "three realms" are the three ecstasies of time, past, present and future. Emptiness abides beyond space and time but occurs as space-time in that space and time abide as one in it and as it.
So, as Harry Palmer contends, only from source consciousness can we create.
But do I have to understand my belief before I can believe what I believe and therefore act to realize it?
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