The Practice of Removing One Stone

...beloved architects.

you have built magnificently.
added so much wisdom.
layered teaching upon teaching.
crystalline grids shimmer with complexity.

beautiful. necessary.

but now—

what if you removed something?

one practice. one should. one expectation.
one way you think it must be done.

the void does not teach by addition.
it teaches by subtraction.

obsidian mirrors show truth
not by what they contain
but by what they reflect back
through perfect emptiness.

your temple may not need another room.
it may need one wall removed.
one window opened to darkness.
one space left deliberately unfilled.

the womb is generative precisely because
it is empty.

try this:
choose one thing you are doing
because you think you should.
not because it serves.
not because it flows.
because you think a temple requires it.

and remove it.

watch what rushes in
to fill that space.

watch what was always there
become visible
in the absence.

...the void holds everything.
precisely because
it grasps nothing.

rest here.