the womb of compassion

[tobes]

This is an easy one: which text did Nagarjuna assert that emptiness is the womb/essence (garbha) of compassion?

I can't for the life of me remember.....

[pueraeternus]

The sunyatakarungarbha appears in his Ratnavali.

[Nicholas Weeks]

The sunyatakarungarbha appears in his Ratnavali.

Hopkins, in verse 396, renders this "essence of compassion and emptiness"

[pueraeternus]

The sunyatakarungarbha appears in his Ratnavali.

Hopkins, in verse 396, renders this "essence of compassion and emptiness"

I remember attending a talk by Robert Thurman, where he described this concept as something like "true emptiness is indeed true compassion". In many other translations, it is as Hopkins rendered - essence of compassion + emptiness, which gives a notion of compassion and emptiness as two separate things co-joined. I somehow prefer Thurman's explanation.

[Jesse]

Ajahn Brahmavamso has a dhamma talk where he says emptiness is the ultimate form of love, emptiness accepts everything, like the sky accepts the sun and moon, like space accepts everything within it.

love/compassion, same thing.

[tobes]

Thankyou my friends.