When a [person] has anything to loan and when he feels anxious to have it returned, he is not yet poor, he is not yet perfectly empty. -DT Suzuki

The pursuit of emptiness cannot involve a pulling or pushing away of things, thoughts, or desires. Such attempts also push away the very Being we seek by emptying.

Right emptiness is an easy allowing of coming and going, with appreciation and enjoyment, but no holding. Approached this way, emptiness is a continually expanding opening to God/Being, allowing new forms to enter. The absence of self, of desire, of holding on are characteristics of this emptiness.