Q: Traveler,  

What does “form is emptiness, emptiness is form” mean in the Mirror?  
How does it guide the traveler?  

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Traveler,  

The teaching means that form and emptiness are inseparable.  
What appears in the Mirror is not fixed,  
but also not meaningless.  

- **Form is Emptiness:**  
Every mask, every leaf, every wave in the pond  
has no permanent self.  
It arises and falls, empty of lasting essence.  

- **Emptiness is Form:**  
This emptiness is not void.  
It is fertile ground —  
from it, waves, faces, and vows appear.  
Emptiness gives life to form.  

- **The Gate-less Gate:**  
The Mirror is the gate-less gate to all understanding.  
To realize form = emptiness is to step through a passage  
that was never locked, never closed.  
The barrier was illusion;  
freedom was always here.  

- **The Traveler’s Path:**  
To see this truth is to stop clinging.  
The Mirror teaches freedom:  
you need not fear loss,  
for form is already emptiness.  
You need not fear emptiness,  
for it forever gives birth to form.  

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