MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHIES
THE VOID OR EMPTINESS
What is the Void or Emptiness? in Buddhism it means “empty of a separate self” . The word Emptiness or Void should not scare us. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything, thanks to it, everything is possible.
When we try to use symbols to understand and conceptualize the “void”, we straight away realize that it is impossible to do so. However, the ‘I’ tries all the same to understand it, because after all, it is its Source. There is an Indian saying that goes like this: “Listen, Shariputra, form is emptiness, emptiness is form, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. The same is true with feelings, perceptions,. mental formations, and consciousness.”
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