One of the strangest things about Buddhism is the idea of Emptiness or Sunyata. The idea that there’s no inherent existence in any thing or phenomena. All events and objects are a nexus of different influences coming together, in a constant state of transformation. When I wanted to try and understand Buddhism I tried, as […]
Explaining the Buddhist viewpoint of Emptiness (Śūnyatā): The Cosmology of ‘No Things’
‘Insofar as the senses show becoming, passing away, and change, they do not lie. But Heraclitus will remain eternally right with his assertion that being is an empty fiction. The “apparent” world is the only one: the “true” world is merely added by a lie’. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols Emptiness (Sanskrit: Śūnyatā) is […]