Sentence examples similar to experience the emptiness from inspiring English sources

And neither of these is less true than saying, "This is empty", or indeed any less true than "experiencing" the emptiness of this cup/elephant.

The expression reflects a synthesis of those emotions born from the hero's experiences: the emptiness of innocence lost prematurely, the burdensome responsibility of a young witness to atrocity, the punishing sting of tearing flesh, the revelation of freedom, the exhilaration of victory... humility and optimism -- always optimism.

So in Two Truths theory, we would say that "this is a cup" is conventionally true, and "this cup is empty" is a higher conventional truth, which finally leads us to a direct inconceivable experience of the emptiness of this cup, freedom from clinging to any view at all of this cup, which is the liberation from all suffering.

How painful and lonely must be the discord between the real experience of emptiness and the image of fullness that we feel we must display to the world.

Nagarjuna himself realized how difficult it would be, even before the Age of Dharma Decline, for people to realize Buddhahood by embracing the idea, and the experience, of emptiness.

These ideas lead beyond themselves, instrumentally, to the experience of Emptiness, which is liberation from all views.

The thought, experience, concept "Emptiness" is also both conditional and unconditional, both conceivable and inconceivable, like "water" and "fire" in our example about.

One downside, though, is that it makes you realize the emptiness involved in other experiences, like brushing your teeth, that are totally devoid of media.

When his own mother died, he once again experienced the pain of her coldness and the emptiness of life without his grandmother's love.

For some, even those momentary events that make up the flow of the world are understood to be empty of inherent existence (the idea of inherent existence is understood differently in different traditions) to the point that what one sees in the enlightenment experience is the ultimate emptiness (sunyata) of all things.

As in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Africa is an emptiness that shows up the emptiness of those who come to experience it.