The Emptiness in Form
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"Form is empty" simply means that this world is illusory. Just like how in your dream, you see the form of a beautiful girl, you can touch her, you can smell her fragrance, and you could probably also have sex with her and get orgasmic pleasure, in the same way this "real" world is also such that all these feelings, sensations etc based on form are null.
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The point is: do not believe what you are thinking.Johnny Dangerous wrote:Yes, obviously my words also would share the same property..your point is?ground wrote:Empty words. No meaning does inhere in these words. Just visible forms.Johnny Dangerous wrote:My basic understanding of "form is emptiness" on just an intellectual level is just that what defines a thing as that thing..is the very lack of inherent existence of the thing.
For example we call a car a car, but in the component parts of a car there is no car, therefore "car" is empty, the same goes for anything that manifests or is conceviable, including the Skandhas that make up well...everything. that's why form is actually emptiness, anything we can name or conceptualize is fundamentally empty of itself, and in fact is defined by this characteristic.
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For some reason it's this very common thing to tell people to "not think", yet what I wrote is very standard Buddhist philosophy, that can be found in plenty of well-known explanations of emptiness. Is there some reason it seems to provoke people to tell others they think too much?
We all know intellectualizing a thing is not the same as realization of it, i'm not sure that needs to be pointed out.
We all know intellectualizing a thing is not the same as realization of it, i'm not sure that needs to be pointed out.
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Hopefully your Maha Mudrā will have less neurosis than your Karma Mudrā and you won't have to make small talk afterwards.Rakshasa wrote:"Form is empty" simply means that this world is illusory. Just like how in your dream, you see the form of a beautiful girl, you can touch her, you can smell her fragrance, and you could probably also have sex with her and get orgasmic pleasure, in the same way this "real" world is also such that all these feelings, sensations etc based on form are null.
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If there is expectation that reference should be fabricated then it should be known that it cannot and that there is neither ill-will nor the consciousness of knowing anything.Johnny Dangerous wrote:For some reason it's this very common thing to tell people to "not think", yet what I wrote is very standard Buddhist philosophy, that can be found in plenty of well-known explanations of emptiness. Is there some reason it seems to provoke people to tell others they think too much?
We all know intellectualizing a thing is not the same as realization of it, i'm not sure that needs to be pointed out.
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Or you could just assume that conventional terms are required for discussion, however dissatisfying.. and actually communicate with people.
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when afflicted by disease
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
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Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
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Back to the OP, the passage from the HS goes "Here, Shariputra, form is emptiness, and emptiness verily is form, emptiness is not different from form; form is not different from emptiness; what is emptiness, that is form, the same is with feeling, perception, habitual tendencies, and consciousness."
There really is no emptiness in form; rather emptiness verily is form. This takes out any ontological trace. Form, we recall from the Nikayas, is "like a lump of foam, feeling like a water bubble, etc. (S.iii.142). Commenting on this HS passage Vimalamitra informs us that emptiness is like the "city of gandharvas" meaning emptiness is like a dream.
There really is no emptiness in form; rather emptiness verily is form. This takes out any ontological trace. Form, we recall from the Nikayas, is "like a lump of foam, feeling like a water bubble, etc. (S.iii.142). Commenting on this HS passage Vimalamitra informs us that emptiness is like the "city of gandharvas" meaning emptiness is like a dream.