Love and Emptiness

As we progress in meditation, emptiness becomes more apparent. Emptiness means that there is no inherent existence. Emptiness and egolessness are very similar in that way. Emptiness is empty of our assumptions, and it is full of compassion. We realize that assumptions are the basis of most of our experiences, and we discover that the mind and the world are actually empty of those assumptions. Discovering our selfless nature is freedom.
Sometimes we understand emptiness to mean that nothing exists, which is nihilism. A more accurate perspective is that without emptiness we cannot have form, and without form we cannot have emptiness. They are inseparable. Exchanging self for other, we realize the self is empty. Then we realize that other is empty, too. That is how true giving and taking can happen. Exchanging oneself for other is the point where relative and absolute truth meet. The whole notion of self and others starts dissolving. If there's somebody sending, who's receiving?
....we begin to see egolessness-we can't find any inherent thing. Compassion seems endless and boundless, but where does compassion come from? Where does insight come from? Where is the mind? Actually we have the capacity to know, but we can't completely understand unless we practice meditation. Mind is empty and luminous: that is its nature. The Mahayana teachings say that with the right view, we can utilize certain aspects of our emotions in order to bring out this natural wisdom. As we develop love and compassion through practice, glimmers of wisdom begin to shine through.