Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising

gestalt

[All things] are simply posited by conception. The world is fabricated through conception… completely conceptualized.

define emptiness as the absence of this inherent existence that things appear to naturally and undeniably have.

Believing then that this real self can really gain or lose real things or experiences which have real qualities, grasping and aversion, and thus dukkha, arise inevitably.

We feel and take for granted that selves and things are as real as they seem to be,

that craving is based on a fundamental mistake in the way we see and intuitively sense our selves and the whole world of inner and outer phenomena.

all this dukkha has craving and clinging as a cause.

what emptiness is not.

also in fact a good portion of what the Buddha taught, cannot be fully understood, even on an intellectual level.