Learning Buddhism thru FAQ

• An Eternal Now

  15 Mar 07, 16:13

  Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:

  Do tell that to microbes which survive on the above gases.

  The microbes and the gases are not separate (nor same) - gas is, microbes is. Gas ceases, microbes ceases. In any case both are empty of inherent existence.
• Herzog_Zwei

  16 Mar 07, 11:52

  Here's another relationship:
  microbe ceases, human ceases.
  But are humans fundamentally empty?
• An Eternal Now

  16 Mar 07, 13:00

  Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:

  Here's another relationship:
  microbe ceases, human ceases.
  But are humans fundamentally empty?

  Everything is fundamentally empty of inherent existence.