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how do you understand emptyness (shunyata)?
do you agree with it? or do you have an alternate explanation?
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in context, while explaining trilaksana, it makes more sense.
I agree with it. I'm not my mind/conditioning, and neither is anything else. It's all arbitrary.
I have never tought of it that way, but it is interesting.
If you having hard time to understand emptiness thru philosophy, I suggest look into quantum mechanics.
This emptiness - this space in relation to matter - doesn't matter - so to speak.....
Shunyata points to anatta which points to annica. Trilaksana includes dhukka - where would we be without our ancient teacher - dukkha?
Emptiness seems like a goal as well as realm of existence and points to the lack of enduring identity of any phenomenon in a constant state of change.
The only thing one may expect is change - except from vending machines.....
LOL! No kidding... sometimes not even the item purchased, or maybe the item is switched and you get something other than you ordered.
This is not the case with Buddhism. You get exactly what you put into it.
My teacher says that we are on an intellectual understanding when we have the 'so what' feeling and ideation.
thankfully the pizza only exists in relation to the makers of the pizza and the various parts that come together so i and our society can project pizza onto these parts.
COME INTO MY MOUTH NOW!
It is actually empty of qualties, and that emptiness unifies all of the subjective views of sentient beings. Like the stage from which actors project meaning onto props and each other to carry out their roles. Without the projecting, it is empty.
Nagarjuna, the great sage, logician and Ayurvedic physician from Southern India, was also connected to the Nagas, and at Samye Ling there is a golden statue of him with a cobra sheltering his head, seated on a coiled serpent throne. It is said that he was given the termas concerning the Prajnaparamita by the naga king, Nagaraja, who had hidden them in a lake - Nagas were traditionally able to hide termas. His name sounds as if it is linked to the Pandavan hero Arjuna, who had a son by the naga princess Ulupi), but this may be coincidence. There is also the connection of medicine with the serpent - think of the caduceus, or staff with two entwined snakes, and compare that to the vital channels in the body in Ayurveda and in Jewish kabala, where they entwine a central tree. Of course, snakes may be venomous, and the wise use of medicine may also use poisons in diluted form.
Similar to King Arthur and the lady of the lake.
so, emptyness has less value because of how some text was "found"? (I don't see your point)
I was just guessing what you meant by that post...
However, not knowing whats wrong and right and pretending to be tolerant when your only indulging yourself is not a open mind that's empty!
I think emptiness is about the true nature of physical world phenomena
objects like stones are flux of matters and energy and changes constantly.
the stones exist but not truly exist independently. I we see the stone with the concept "the stone" instead of what it really is, which is flux of ever changing matter and energy, we have the wrong view. That's my opinion on the meaning of emptiness.
Understanding things as not truly exist (as said above) helps us greatly to lessen attachment. Attachment tends to stick easily to conceptual view than something that's flux of ever changing components.
do you think that emptyness is compatible with contemporary (quantum) physics? that it is a crucial concept, even for science, to understand how this so-called material world really is?
[ Now, as well as before, I remain fully in a dwelling of emptiness. Just as this palace of Migara's mother is empty of elephants, cattle, & mares, empty of gold & silver, empty of assemblies of women & men, and there is only this non-emptiness — the singleness based on the community of monks; even so, Ananda, a monk — not attending to the perception[1] of village, not attending to the perception of human being — attends to the singleness based on the perception of wilderness. His mind takes pleasure, finds satisfaction, settles, & indulges in its perception of wilderness.
"He discerns that 'Whatever disturbances that would exist based on the perception of village are not present. Whatever disturbances that would exist based on the perception of human being are not present. There is only this modicum of disturbance: the singleness based on the perception of wilderness.' He discerns that 'This mode of perception is empty of the perception of village. This mode of perception is empty of the perception of human being. There is only this non-emptiness: the singleness based on the perception of wilderness.' Thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there. Whatever remains, he discerns as present: 'There is this.' And so this, his entry into emptiness, accords with actuality, is undistorted in meaning, & pure.]
Cula-suññata Sutta: The Lesser Discourse on Emptiness
one of my favorite sutras
but... isn't that the arupa-jhana of emptiness?
I think one example is that: physicality of Mr. A...
Mr A. of today looks the same like Mr. A two years ago,
but most of the body cells of Mr. A 2 years ago is replaced by new ones now and most water molecules in the body have changed.
conceptually, Mr.A is still Mr. A after 2 years, but they are no more truly the same. They already changed (impermenance) but our ignorant mind see them as the same person, when they are already physically very different.
I think that's emptiness as applied in daily life.
Therefore things are not independent.
Therefore things are dependent and interconnected.
All things are connected."
Emptiness the nature of everything that exists. Unconditioned and infinite.
Everything that exists, meaning has form (be it me, things, phenomena, or even thoughts) is empty of a separate and permanent self. All form is impermanent and only arises dependent on multiple other events in a process that can never be seen or understood completely. This can be expressed as Form=Emptiness and is taught conceptually as Dependent Origination and No Self.
Emptiness is thought of as non-existence. But something has to come from somewhere. Emptiness is the source of all things (form) that comes into existence. As such form and emptiness are not opposites any more than light and dark are opposites.
In the world of form - Dependent Arising is the process, Impermanence and No Self are the qualities, and emptiness is the source.
In a practical way awareness is manifestation of emptiness.