Through selflessness, one might become sufficiently empty of self-interest to participate in the objective reality of the Way.
There was something about being framed as a worthless, feckless, good-for-nothing that left me feeling persecuted and empty of self-belief".
For example, Buddhists often affirmed that metaphysically all things are empty of self-substantial being.
And for this series to be operative, Zen maintains, following Nāgārjuna, that each of these terms that enters the relationship is empty of self-nature, where self-nature means a power to generate itself on its own without dependence on anything.
Despite the erotic beginning, Von Trier has little interest in desire; his focus is on Sadeian extreme pain and enjoyment, the abject emptying of self and other (including the audience, who are made complicit in the sexual violence infusing the film).
One of the basic distinguishing features of Great Vehicle (Mahāyāna) metaphysics is the affirmation that not only the person, but all entities (dharma) are empty of a "self" or an inherent nature (svabhāva).
"The Social Network" is shrewdly perceptive about such things as class, manners, ethics, and the emptying out of self that accompanies a genius's absorption in his work.
The proved fixed point theorems have been obtained for mappings satisfying contraction type conditions empty of the self-distance.
It is that wars are always wars, good for destroying things that must be destroyed, as in 1864 or 1944, but useless for doing anything more, and no good at all for doing cultural work: saving the national honor, proving that we're not a second-rate power, avenging old humiliations, demonstrating resolve, or any of the rest of the empty vocabulary of self-improvement through mutual slaughter.
"Why can't I ever be more!" "I'm glad I don't make empty promises of self-improvement to myself!
The book's title, "Going Clear," refers to a stage of Scientological enlightenment, wherein "thetans" (i.e., earthlings) empty their minds of self-defeating "engrams" (suppressed memories from previous lives).
