Sentence examples for on emptiness from inspiring English sources

(However it should not be understood as substantial in the western philosophical sense because it is "empty" — more on "emptiness" below).

But poetry starts building when love starts dying; it erects its structures durably on emptiness.

"There's nothing like a taste of healthy Balkan irreverence after overdosing on emptiness," the author finds.

Nagarjuna is credited with transforming the sutras' poetic and sometimes paradoxical declarations on emptiness into a philosophical system.

For them, the teachings of Nagarjuna on emptiness (sunyata) were critical as they sought to end their own suffering and become Buddhas at last.

As he beat time on a wooden instrument, we performed a Korean chant of the Heart Sutra, a traditional teaching on emptiness.

Some doors open on to emptiness and to spaces as yet undefined.

And when the passengers finally leave, there is a sense of emptiness on both sides.

"Is that what you wanted?" In that moment, we see that the goal of Butley's wit is to inflict his sense of emptiness on others.

I can still remember the feeling of emptiness on the way back from Twickenham in May 2003 with nothing to show for 17 victories in the regular season.

Many critics cited a growing bleakness in his work, saying that as he left his Jewish milieu for academic and other settings his work took on a flinty emptiness without the poignance and meaning that characterized his earlier novels.