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emptiness is not an experience. Emptiness is where "you" disappear. As a baby you had no self-image or sense of personal identity. It arises around 15-24 months. It's just a bunch of thoughts about identity that then becomes a chronic thought. The "me" identity can just suddenly cease being projected by the subconscious.

Sorry, I would like to understand: Is there 'you' in Buddhahood? Thanks.

No.

Suffering
"What is more, suffering cannot exist apart from any thought of it—it must depend upon the thought of the suffering in order to exist. Without the concept of suffering, there is no suffering in the slightest."
Khenpo Tsulstrim Gyatso

Whatever you look at, you see only the Diamond Mirror Emptiness Dharmakaya, a Single Consciousness appearing to Itself as Itself. There are no parts. There are just fictional thoughts occuring in impersonal, Knowing Emptiness. There are no entities. An empty mirror remains the same before, during or after reflections appear.

KOCOURMIKES: Whatever you look at, you see only the Diamond Mirror Emptiness Dharmakaya, a Single Consciousness appearing to Itself as Itself. There are no parts.

An empty mirror remains the same before, during or after reflections appear.

there are no entities

There is only a Single Consciousness appearing to Itself as Itself. There are no parts!


There are just fictional thoughts occuring in impersonal, Knowing Emptiness

"In his Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Conduct, the bodhisattva Shantideva teaches:
Then wanderers, these dreamlike beings, what are they? If analyzed, they’re like a banana tree— (hollow,empty)
Sentient beings who wander in samsara are like sentient beings who appear in dreams. Once we analyze, we find that they are like banana trees—when you look at a banana tree, it seems solid, but once you peel away the layers of its bark, you do not find any core. The bodies of sentient beings are the same—they appear to be solid, truly existent things, but we can apply the analysis of composite entities that we have undertaken in this chapter to sentient beings’ bodies as well and find that they are not truly existent after all, that they have no real substance, because they do not really arise, abide, or cease. Thus, sentient beings are illusory appearances."
Khenpo Tsulstrim Gyatso

There are no parts

There is only a Single Consciousness appearing to Itself as Itself

There are no parts

There is only a Single Consciousness appearing to Itself as Itself. There are no parts

! There are just fictional thoughts occuring in impersonal, Knowing Emptiness

There is only a Single Consciousness appearing to Itself as Itself. There are no parts

There is only a Single Consciousness appearing to Itself as Itself. There are no parts! There are just fictional thoughts occuring in impersonal, Knowing Emptiness.
FULL STOP!!!⛔️

There are just fictional thoughts occuring in impersonal, Knowing Emptiness.
FULL STOP!!!⛔️

Tsultrim Gyatso:
"From the palace of Dzogchen – appearing emptiness,
I look back into my mind.
And what I see is “clinging to me”.
And I suddenly remember that there is no self in what I think is me or I think is mine.
And there’s a reason why I remember this, it's because none of the body/mind are a self and because there is no self apart from them.
I know for sure that from the very start
there has never been any self at all."

Stable Nirvana
Nirvana is outside of space, time, change and conditioning. It never wobbles. It's your only place of residence. You have never moved out of Nirvana.
Nirvana is the impersonal empty, cognitive space where seemingly personal stories and holographic landscapes with inhabitants arise and dissolve.
Imagine you are flat on your back in bed at night. You close your eyes and immediately dream that you have a dream body similar to your "physical" body. With that body you travel to various lands and interact with many people. Horrible things happened to you and you did horrible things to others.
Then suddenly your eyes open and you realize you are still in your bed, flat on your back; you never moved.
Nothing horrible happened to you nor did you do horrible things to anyone. Nothing ever actually happened. Your memories about the dreamed events don't make them real.
Likewise you are in Nirvana now. You never moved into samsara, not even for a short visit. You have no body, no personal self or form and never have. You have never been harmed nor have harmed. You never appeared in a physical world. No one has ever appeared in any world.
Just sit still with eyes closed, and observe your thoughts as they come and go along with the central thought that "you are an entity observing your thoughts coming and going". That central thought of "you" being a witness to the passing thoughts, is also just an empty thought with no one there as a real witness. This is like the witness you seem to be in a dream at night who is observing the dream landscape. Is there really someone looking at the dream landscape or is the one looking just an imaginary mental construction like the landscape?
Open your eyes. Could the one looking at what you are seeing, also be just an imaginary projection of mind looking at a mentally projected landscape?
Engaging in this exercise often and at length, will reveal that no one is actually present as a personal "me" except that mental projection that claims otherwise. ALL THOUGHTS are only the building blocks of the dreaming mind. When all thought ceases, only "Awake Awareness" remains.
The Buddha having seen this, recognized his true condition was always Nirvana. The single Wisdom Eye opened revealing that no one ever existed, so who could leave Nirvana? And that if no one existed, who could return to Nirvana through "practice and enlightenment"?

Whatever you look at, you see only the Diamond Emptiness Dharmakaya :)

One does not have to "purify" or transform or stop the alaya in order for rigpa to arise. The empty nature of the alaya or karmic mind is itself rigpa. Rigpa's energy (tsal) is itself manifesting as the alaya or karmic mind.