[MD] The Relativist's journey

[MarshaV]

Hi Mark,

Emptiness represents the fundamental nature of all patterns being dependently arisen:  dependent upon innumerable causes and conditions, dependent on wholes and parts, and dependent on mental designation.  Emptiness is a non-affirming negative because it posits no replacement for the false notion of independent existence.  But Emptiness, too, is empty of independent existence; this is what I meant by analogy, that it should not be understood as anything that exists independently.  Emptiness is empty of independent, inherent existence.


Marsha 



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On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:47 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> I do not understand.  What is Emptiness an analogy for?  That is, what does emptiness represent?  It has struck me that I do not know what you mean by emptiness.
> 
> My point was that emptiness can be full of joy, for example.  This is not an analogy which is representing something else.
> 
> Confused,
> 
> Mark
> 
> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
> Mark
> 
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:19 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>> Mark,  
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>> Okay, but I tend to think of both emptiness and full as analogy.  
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>> Marsha 
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>> On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:39 AM, 118 wrote:
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>>> Hi Marsha,
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>>> I will stop thinking about it.  At the same time, you consider that Emptiness is full.
>>> 
>>> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
>>> Mark
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