Aloha All,
When one truly goes into the emptiness, pursuit of the meditation or active exercise is no long is there.
As has been mentioned above, the emptiness is not just quieting your mind and thinking about no thing. Starting out, many think that a quieting of sorts is the emptiness. While it is a good stepping stone as Agent B points out with the active exercises, visualizations and sounds helping to take that initial step.
When at some point in one's days, weeks, months, years of practice, they go into the emptiness, it all becomes that and not that, and there is no either/or. It's simply... amazing.
Much love, Shawn
