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December 29th, 2008
04:18 pm - Quotations on emptiness.
"This is the crucial point, and is worth reiteration. Emptiness does not imply non-existence; emptiness implies the emptiness of intrinsic existence, which necessarily implies dependent origination. Dependence and interdependence is the nature of all things; things and evens come into being only as a result of causes and conditions. Emptiness makes the law of cause and effect possible.
We can express all of this yet another way as the following chain of reasoning. Because all things originate dependently, one can observe cause and effect. Cause and effect are only possible in a world which is dependently originated, and dependent origination is only possible in a world that is devoid of intrinsic existence, which is to say a world that is empty. Therefore, we can say that emptiness is form, which is another way of saying that form arises from emptiness, and emptiness is the basis that allows the dependent origination of form. Thus the world of form is a manifestation of emptiness."
-H.H. the Dalai Lama, Essence of the Heart Sutra
"When we take the statement 'emptiness us form', and apply it to the issue of separateness, it means that we are essentially non-seperate. But this essential non-separateness is not separate from our sense of separation. When we speak of the statement 'form is emptiness' and apply it to the issue of separateness, it means that we are separate. But this separateness is separate within the empty field of non-separateness. You could also say that the empty quality of our non-separateness has the form quality of impermanence; and that the form quality of our separateness has the emptiness quality of permanence."
-Ngakpa Chogyam, Spectrum of Ecstasy
"Every something is equally a shadow of nothing, and justifies nothing in its futile attempt at thinking that something stable."
-A. Crowley
"I think therefore I am going to go eat breakfast."
- Charles Fort
"I always lie- and I'm always right."
J.R. Bob Dobbs
Cogito Ergo Spud- I think therefore I yam.
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