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Re: Confusion over Buddhist Notion of EmptinessFrom: rex
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-03-18 11:17:07
Remote IP: 193.61.82.223
MessageMichael,
Emptiness is such a confusing term. I've seen it described as 'lack of inherent existence' which says that even though things do exist they only exist in so far as they are the products of the causes and conditions which bring them into being. In this respect then Emptiness can also be described as limitless potential and this is where buddhist notions of interdependence and karma come into play in order to attempt to grasp at an intellectual level the ebb and flow of life.
In some schools of buddhism Emptiness is one of the key qualities of Buddha Nature and carries all the associations of Wu - unknowable, unlimited potential - and is certainly not some nihilistic void.
Buddhist notions of the 'union of bliss and emptiness' from my syncretist viewpoint can be seen as similar to the perpetual interaction of shen (emptines) and jing (bliss).
Anyway this is the map I've constructed for myself to try and make sense of the intellectual maze ...
Rex
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