[MD] What's Emptiness?

[John Carl]

Well Tsong-kha-pa certainly got it right, Marsha.  Things do arise and they
come into existence and they affect one another.

I agree completely.

Johnny come lately


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:26 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> 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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