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- Form is the quality of solidity, permanence, separateness, continuity, and definition. Emptiness is the quality of insubstantiality, impermanence, indistinctness, discontinuity, and ambiguity.
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Apr 30, 2024 · Simply put, “Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form” states that what appears to be matter or “form” is ultimately empty. The term “Emptiness” in this case does not mean nothing, but more precisely, nothing exists independently, everything is created by fate.
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The fundamental confusion we have about reality concerns the relationship between “me” and the body and the mind. To eliminate this confusion, we need to have some clear understanding of the five aggregate factors of experience – the so-called five aggregates. “Aggregate” is an adjective meaning “made up of many parts.” What it’s talking about is o...
Buddhist philosophy differentiates between things that exist and things that do not exist. What exists can be validly known. What does not exist cannot be validly known. Chicken lips do not exist. We can imagine human lips on a chicken, but we cannot imagine chicken lips on a chicken because there is no such thing. What exists can be divided into t...
There are two types of ways of being aware of something: primary consciousness and mental factors. Primary consciousness makes up the second aggregate and it is aware of merely the essential nature of something. The essential nature of something is its being a sound, a sight, a smell, a thought. Seeing, for example, cognizes merely the essential na...
The mental factors go together with the channel. Once we’re on a channel, we have to play with the other dials to get it into focus and adjust the volume and all these other things. That’s like the mental factors or different types of subsidiary awareness. There are a lot of them. Of the most important ones, first there is feeling a level of happin...
Another important mental factor is distinguishing, usually translated as “recognition,” which is a totally misleading translation. “Recognition” means that you’ve seen something previously; you compare some new thing to it and thus recognize the new thing as being in the same category. We’re not talking about that. For example, we’re on the seeing ...
Then there is “everything else” that’s nonstatic and changing all the time. That constitutes the fifth aggregate factor. “Everything else” includes paying attention, interest, anger, desire, love, compassion – all the emotions and all the things that enable us to concentrate and so on. It’s a big category. Actually, all five aggregatesgo on at the ...
A simile from the Pali scriptures (SN 22.95) compares form and feelings with foam and bubbles. The Pāli Canon uses the term śūnyatā ("emptiness") in three ways: " (1) as a meditative dwelling, (2) as an attribute of objects, and (3) as a type of awareness-release." [10]
Avalokiteśvara famously states, "Form is empty (śūnyatā). Emptiness is form", and declares the other skandhas to be equally empty of the most fundamental Buddhist teachings such as the Four Noble Truths and explains that in emptiness none of these notions apply.
Jun 16, 2021 · Form and emptiness are not two independent realities – they are one unified reality; emptiness is not “better” than form. After the teachings, the group shared their experiences with practicing the Heart Sutra.
The word “emptiness” is best known for its central place in the Heart Sutra of the Mahayana tradition: “Form is emptiness; emptiness is form,” a phrase that is repeated also for the other four aggregates that construct our idea of self—feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness.
Emptiness and form always define each other – as each other. Form can be understood as ‘existence’ and emptiness as ‘non-existence’. Emptiness however, is not merely ‘nothing’.
