Sentence examples similar to substantial emptiness from inspiring English sources
Emptiness, too, is not "found" when sought (emptiness is empty, too).
(However it should not be understood as substantial in the western philosophical sense because it is "empty" — more on "emptiness" below).
These patches are not mute, though: they represent the emptiness, the hollow openness, from which the substantial emerges.
Awakening to the emptiness of all things, to their lack of substantial own-being or egoity (Japanese: shogyōmuga), thus frees one both from an ego-centered and reified view of things, and from the illusion of the substantial ego itself.
Unlike in the case of dreaming, where the mere wondering whether we are dreaming sometimes allows us to see through the nature of the dream the mere suspicion that there is no substantial self is (unfortunately) not yet a realization of the emptiness of the self.
However, if the movement of negation stops here at a one-sided negation of being (i.e., at negation of the independent substantial reality of things and the ego), and if the idea of "emptiness" is not itself emptied,[8] then we are left either with a pessimistic nihilism or with an ironically reified view of śūnyatā.
A vertical bridge and emptiness, emptiness, emptiness.
Space is not just emptiness.
