Sentence examples for as emptiness from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, an openness that could be construed as emptiness; on the other, a political sharpness that seems to match the aggression of the religious right.

The radical extension of the common Buddhist doctrine of "dependent arisal" (pratityasamutpada), the idea that nothing has an essence and that the existence of each thing is dependent on the existence of other things, is referred to as emptiness (shunyata).

Through ultimate transcendental wisdom, which denies an illusional superimposition of the reality, a person comes to understand the essence of the phenomenal world as emptiness (shunyata)—i.e., as the form perfectly attained (parinishpanna-svabhava).

A frozen landscape, a blank sheet of paper - whiteness as emptiness, sterility: that is the spiritual starting point of Sally Beamish's first full-length opera, Monster, which is premiered at Scottish Opera next week.

He shows us that desolation is not the same thing as emptiness, because unlike emptiness, it can fill a space -- in the heart of a person, or even of a city.

The very same reality can be taken as the phenomena of everyday experience and as emptiness.

This radical reaffirmation of the phenomenal world was particularly stressed in East Asian developments of Mahāyāna Buddhism, where we find such remarkably affirmative phrases as: "true emptiness, marvelous being" (Japanese: shinkū-myōu).

Facing that emptiness as directly as Marlow faces Kurtz ("God damn God!" she screams), Sugar, unlike Marlow, does not turn away from others but straight toward them.

It is filled as well with emptiness.

A good deal of 19th 20th century Western imaginative literature has been concerned with emptiness, as has a certain type of Existentialist philosophy and some forms of the Death of God movement.

And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well.