Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
Emptiness is actually not a concept, but it is truth. The truth is all things are empty of inherent existence, non existence, both and neither. Concepts are also empty of inherent existence, non existence, both and neither. Even emptiness is empty of inherent existence, non existence, both and neither.
No Emptiness means non existence of emptiness? This is also an illusion, for emptiness is also empty of inherent existence, non existence, both and neither.
Emptiness is "?" You mean not knowing? I have just explained in the other thread that grasping on not knowing is still a subtle form of knowingness. Is knowing and not knowing two or one or neither?
When I asked Emptiness is
Your answer was Emptiness is "truth"
If that is what you are trying to say, then you shouldn't ask if Emptiness is a concept. What you should have asked was, "Is Emptiness true or false (a concept)?"
You fell into duality. It is neither true nor false. It just is.
But then Emptiness is also form! That is to say Form also is. Just as Emptiness is, Form also is!
You cannot escape from "Form" because "Form also is!
That is to say, in Buddhism, you do not try to run away from this world. You do not try to go to another place. The other place is also "here"!
Samsara and Nirvana; Form and Emptiness; Human Nature and Buddha Nature;
Not one, not two.
Nirvana is Samsara; Emptiness is Form; Buddha Nature is Human Nature!
Face Reality.
Not right or wrong.