Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the spectrum from the lofty musings of shows like "Political Animals," "The Newsroom" and "Game of Thrones" sits "Hillbilly Handfishin'," an empty-headed reality show in which people try to catch catfish with their bare hands, a practice known as noodling.
Thus he proposes the view that both the subject and the object are conventionally intrinsically real as both are conventional truths, where as both are ultimately intrinsically unreal as both are empty of ultimate reality, hence emptiness alone is the ultimate reality.
So, to wind up the discussion on the Prāsaṅgika's theory of the two truths, just as conventional truth is empty of intrinsic reality, hence ultimately unreal, even so, is ultimate truth empty of intrinsic reality, hence ultimately unreal.
I want to, as a public intellectual, take a fresh look at the news that we take in daily from TV, news that is astonishingly empty and distorts reality".
The "emptiness-argument" and the "nonself-argument" show that all conventionally real phenomena and persons are empty of intrinsic reality.
It is, therefore, demonstrated that nothing is ultimately real for Candrakīrti, hence everything is empty of intrinsic reality.
Even though all bins are depicted as being equal for convenience, busy slots are substantially longer than empty slots in reality.
The heart of Candrakīrti's two truths theory is the argument that only because they are empty of intrinsic reality can conventionally real entities be causally efficient.
(v.11 12) Since there is no phenomenon other than what is dependently arisen, there is no phenomenon other than what is empty of intrinsic reality.
Moreover, according to this view, whosoever knows conventional truth, either directly or inferentially, also knows ultimate truth; whosoever knows ultimate truth, also knows phenomena as dependently arisen, and hence knows them as empty of intrinsic reality.
