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- empty space: She loves the emptiness of the desert. lack of meaning or purpose: He tried to ignore the feeling of emptiness.
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Sep 28, 2023 · Emptiness—as it relates to mental health—is an existential feeling that has to do with how you connect to yourself and the world around you. It’s considered a component of self-criticism,...
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In Buddhism, emptiness is a fundamental philosophical idea central to understanding the nature of reality, the self, and the path to liberation from suffering. In Mahayana Buddhism, the term “emptiness” (sunyata in Sanskrit) describes how things do—do not—exist.
Feb 17, 2016 · It means that every single thing we encounter — including ourselves — goes beyond our ability to conceive of it. We call it emptiness because nothing can ever explain it. Reality itself is emptiness because we can’t possibly fit it into our minds.” That’s how Zen teacher Brad Warner explains emptiness, in his next book, Don’t Be a Jerk.
Voidness or emptiness refers to the fact that our projections of impossible ways of existing onto ourselves, others and everything we encounter do not correspond to reality. There never was and there never can be an actual reality corresponding to them.
May 16, 2018 · It must be stressed that a ‘sense of place’ does not negate an objective awareness of the static or homogenous quality of topological space. Rather, it infuses the objective space with an additional subjective awareness of lived, existential, non-homogenous space.
Emptiness is a mode of perception, a way of looking at experience. It adds nothing to, and takes nothing away from, the raw data of physical and mental events. You look at events in the mind and the senses with no thought of whether there's anything lying behind them.
The Emptiness of Emptiness. Nagarjuna’s doctrine of the emptiness of emptiness involves many reasonings that interrelate in deep and comprehensive ways. To begin with, to be empty is to be dependently arisen and emptiness is no exception. Ultimate truth is fully dependent upon conventional phenomena to perceive their emptiness.
