It’s interesting how fallen souls always resort to similar language in order to present their fallen state as something enviable and, in some cases, an ultimate achievement.

Either it’s compassion – but for the low and fallen beings, while resentment and criticism is reserved for the high ones, who are of God. Or it is some quasi-religion, like the false interpretation of Buddhism which embraces something they call Emptiness, which due to imperfections of human language can be misconstrued to resemble what Buddha was talking about.

Essentially, there are two things on the polar opposite of spiritual experience, that can both be called Emptiness. First is the state in which a rock exists. It is empty of spirit, mind and feeling. It is also immune to karma – if a rock kills, it cannot be punished, because it lacks positive substance that would incur karmic retribution, and you can also not conceivably degrade it further. You can argue that the state of a rock is equivalent to this “Emptiness” that false spiritual people teach of. The thing is, you would need to be really pathetic and desperate in order to aspire to this condition. Achieving the state that’s natural to rocks isn’t a worthy achievement. Rather, it’s the lowest point to which you can fall as a spiritual being; it’s a point from which every way is up. Also, we have a local, traditional term for this state; the Latin word for it is “vanitas, -tis, f”. It is translated as either vanity, or emptiness, lack of Divine being. You can mockingly call it “nirvanitas” and accurately describe this falsely spiritual mockery of a teaching. You need to be rather stupid to embrace this idea, since it brings you literally nothing of substance, but stupid people are dime a dozen so it’s not hard to imagine how such nonsense can take hold and spread. The interesting thing is that claiming ultimate spiritual attainment can give you an ego boost even if it’s literally about being too spiritually degraded to be punishable for sin. Preach baseline state of non-differentiation of ego as the ultimate goal. Yay, you’re the great Buddha. The problem: every rock is your peer.

It’s a problem with human language, because there is an extreme state of spiritual ecstasy and fulfilment in the presence of God that can be described as Emptiness, because it’s emptiness of thought, of desire, of wish for any change, or for anything at all other than to remain in His holy presence forever. However, the Isha Upanishad speaks of this differently, using the word “purna”, fullness. Lord is the fullness that remains full even after infinity of infinities emanates from it. Also, it’s the emptiness of motive after everything has been achieved, emptiness of desire after everything worth desiring has been achieved, emptiness of thought because you rest in the totality of bliss, consciousness and truth. Fullness of being is also emptiness of all human nonsense. The same word can be used for the opposite sides of the spiritual spectrum – for God and for a rock. But of course, the confusion is intentionally spread by the quasi-spiritual fakes and deceivers on an ego-trip.

It’s similar to being wordless because you experience a fullness of meaning that exceeds your ability to put it into words without choking up, and being wordless because you are dumber than dirt. Opposite things, but somehow can be described with the same words, especially if your intent is to deceive. If it is not, you will make sure to avoid using deceptive language and speak very clearly of the Lord and His infinite abundance of fullness.