Form and Emptiness

While taking photographs for listing our house for sale, we again have had the pleasure of simply appreciating both the original house we bought 21 years ago -- in its very sad state and the beautiful home we have created. 


While the house is empty except for major pieces of furniture and minimal essentials, there is an elegance to the sparsity akin to a Sacred Emptiness referred to in an ancient Sanskrit sutra:


The translation of part of the chant include the lines:

Form here is only emptiness - emptiness only form.

Form is no other than emptiness -- emptiness only form.

Heart of Perfect Wisdom.

All of the creativity, love and inspiration we have found here, we are packing and taking with us!  We can appreciate all this and...AND look forward with expectations to the play of form and emptiness -- in a new land.