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in Buddhist philosophy, the voidness that constitutes ultimate reality. It is seen not as a negation of existence but rather as the undifferentiation out of which all apparent entities, distinctions, and dualities arise.

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  • Rather, the Sanksrit word for nothingness, "sunyata," is derived from a term meaning "to swell" (quoted in
  • For the Asian landscape painter, the reed is not just a “reed,” but an expression of the beauty, spontaneity, and mystery of the void sunyata.
  • The purpose here is not really to describe sunyata, something doomed to failure from the beginning, but rather to help people discover the saving truth of their own true...
  • At least since Nagarjuna the understanding that sunyata and things (read in addition to everything else in the cosmos, very much you and me ...) are identical has been a...
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