[MD] emptiness

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Form and Emptiness According to Zen Buddhists:

Within the heart of Zen Buddhism is the principle of form and emptiness. According to this principle, form is emptiness; and emptiness is form.

Zen Buddhists believe that form is an aggregate of conditions. It arises into being and exists because of other conditions arising and waning. Its existence is entirely dependent. Consequent of this dependence, form is empty of independent existence. It is empty of intrinsic qualities. Form is therefore called emptiness.

Form arises out of emptiness; thus created by emptiness. Form does not have a concrete identity. Its existence is not isolated. Because of the lack of identity and isolated existence the nature of form is empty. Thus, emptiness is form.

But it's important that one does not mistake emptiness for non-existence. The principle of emptiness points to the emptiness of independent existence; illustrating dependent origination, and stressing the interconnectivity of every thing.


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