If that which arises does not belong to our external senses, nor to our mind, given that phenomena appear and vanish of their own accord, lacking any independent, inherent existence—then the experience of these phenomena dissolves, leaving behind an empty space. This is the universal ground, the very condition for what we call existence. As mind, it is experience; as an object, it becomes a mental representation—yet, in itself, it is neither of these. This implies a specific orientation toward what arises: one of presence, conduct and wakefulness. Here, the mind—acting as the consciousness of the universal ground becomes aware of its own contents through self-reflective, meditative transparency. From this true undiluted compassion emerges, experienced as a profound participation in nature itself, where the universal ground is percieved on both a personal level and on a scale that encompasses it within a worldly context, as the underlying condition that connects everything to all life, revealing everything as an individual integral part of this same experiental universal ground. Out of this participation, consciousness is reborn. But not from a human mother, rather, from the earth itself. Something that the conditioned collective consciousness in a devestating way is missing out on.