[MD] What's Emptiness?

[MarshaV]

Don't you think, at the very least, dependent on consciousness?   




On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:26 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> Oh right, Emptiness...   
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>   "For Tsong-kha-pa, the compatibility of emptiness and dependent arising is the very heart of the Madhyamaka view and the key to the path.  Dependent arising means that things come into being in dependence upon causes and conditions.  Understanding dependent arising correctly refutes the idea that things exist in of themselves---because they must depend on other things.  In the same moment, it also refutes the nihilist extreme---because it show that things do arise, they do come into existence, and they affect one another.  Thus, Tsong-kha-pa advises that if you think that you may have found the profound view of emptiness, you should check to see if you have negated too much.  Can this "emptiness" you have discovered be reconciled with the mere existence of things that arise interdependently? If not, then you are certainly mistaken."  
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