06-30-2010, 12:01 AM
All things arise dependently. In Mahayana Buddism its called Dependent Origination or Dependent Arising. Much effort has been put forth to explain the meaning here and also it can be experienced directly by working with the misconceptions and clearing them away.
To experience emptiness directly, both absolutism and nihilism have to be let go of. Because if there is a creator, as you say (which is absolute being), that creator could not be empty, he would have to have an inherent essence of beingness.
Anyone who believes emptiness is the underlying essence of all things has to respect what is being put forth here. The only trick it one can think they grasp it and so are no longer curious.
Nagarjuna (his work has been posted here) goes extensively into clearing the misconceptions. The text is Fundamentals of the Middle Way.
To experience emptiness directly, both absolutism and nihilism have to be let go of. Because if there is a creator, as you say (which is absolute being), that creator could not be empty, he would have to have an inherent essence of beingness.
Anyone who believes emptiness is the underlying essence of all things has to respect what is being put forth here. The only trick it one can think they grasp it and so are no longer curious.
Nagarjuna (his work has been posted here) goes extensively into clearing the misconceptions. The text is Fundamentals of the Middle Way.