When we enter a meditative state [of mind] which suggests emptying our minds of thoughts, does our "drawing" tend to resemble a blank sheet of paper? Is this sheet of paper truly blank because it does not host a drawing of a thought though? Or, is this simply the depiction of all negative space without being interrupted by positive space?
I think it results in something like an ocean undisturbed by waves. Even when the brain generates the waves, the deeper mind disregards them. So the "substance" of the ocean (perhaps one's essential being and one's connection to God, the ground of all being) is positive, not negative.
@Mary
Your question reminds me of a Zen tale I heard from the maverick composer John Cage (presented in his book Silence)
In a competition for selecing a Haiku Master, in which no participant could know what the others compose, the 2nd prize winning haiku said: The mind is a mirror, it collects dust. The 1st prize winning haiku was: Where is the mirror? Where is the dust?
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