08-04-2010, 12:07 AM
"So to say objects are empty is to say that all that is being imputed to objects is only appearance of inherent essence when there is none."
...just like one piece of paper appears to be money and another does not. Money is not a real thing of essence. Nothing imputed is! And the point of the story is that there are perceptual shifts of attention...learned ways of thinking and thus perceiving that are only mere appearances, not real as far as being essential in nature. Paper is not essentially money, its not essentially anything, because even tree is just a name, a label just as money was, but we cannot find the essence of tree just as we cannot find essence of money, it will never be apprehended. And we could from this point name all objects where they are not "something" but everyone strongly identifies it as such.
...just like one piece of paper appears to be money and another does not. Money is not a real thing of essence. Nothing imputed is! And the point of the story is that there are perceptual shifts of attention...learned ways of thinking and thus perceiving that are only mere appearances, not real as far as being essential in nature. Paper is not essentially money, its not essentially anything, because even tree is just a name, a label just as money was, but we cannot find the essence of tree just as we cannot find essence of money, it will never be apprehended. And we could from this point name all objects where they are not "something" but everyone strongly identifies it as such.