Eighty-fourth technique. The five voids and the peacock mandala. Śikhipakṣaiḥ citrarūpaiḥ — like peacock feathers with their multicolored forms. The iridescent eyes of the feather are natural maṇḍalas. Concentric circles of color that draw the gaze toward an empty center.

Śūnyapañcakam — the five voids. Five senses, five voids. Each sense has an empty center, like the eye of the peacock’s feather. Vision has a blind spot. Hearing has a background of silence. Each perception emerges from and returns to a void.

Anuttare śūnye praveśo hṛdaye bhavet — entry into the unsurpassable void in the heart. Anuttara — with nothing superior, the supreme. The five sensory voids converge in a central void: the spiritual heart. Hṛdaya — not the physical organ but the center of consciousness. Where all voids meet, there is the door.