Out of the experience of shunyata spaciousness comes the experience of mahamudra, where the things that emerge from shunyata are amazingly vivid.

"Mahamudra is a way of bringing together the notion of the immense emptiness of space, shunyata, and manifestation within shunyata . . . From the shunyata experience of emptiness, we are led to mahamudra . . . Having had all illusions removed by the experience of shunyata, there is a sense of extraordinary clarity.  That clarity is called mahamudra. . . .So the mahamudra experience is vividness . . . The eternally youthful quality of the mahamudra experience is one of its outstanding qualities.  It is eternally youthful because there is no sense of repetition, no sense of wearing out of interest because of familiarity.  Every experience is a new, fresh experience.  So it is childlike, innocent and childlike . . . The energies around you - textures, colors, different states of mind, relationships - are very vivid and precise . . . Shunyata fullness [the experience of the spaciousness of awareness out of which all things emerge] is rather gray and transparent and dull, like London fog.  But the mahamudra experience of fullness is of little particles dancing with each other within the fullness [of spaciousness]  It's like a sky full of stars and shooting stars and all the rest - so many activities are taking place."

Chogyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist Rinpoche

Photo: Parry Primrose blooms at Thunder Lake, Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 25, 2012