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Mu is the thorny Zen concept not of nonexistence, as the translation of “nothingness” suggests, but rather the passing through to that which lies beyond the dualism of existence and nonexistence.
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
Winnie Lim • what is there when there is nothing
For them, emptiness pretty much means what it says. All things are an appearance, a manifesting, without any solidity at all.
Henry Shukman • Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening
disappearance of his family’s wealth demonstrated the truth of emptiness, while its reappearance demonstrated that true emptiness is empty of emptiness.
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
The Sunyavada takes its name from the term sunya, void, or sunyata, voidness, with which Nagarjuna described the nature of reality, or rather, of the conceptions of reality which the human mind can form. Conceptions here include not only metaphysical views but also ideals, religious beliefs, ultimate hopes and ambitions of every kind-everything
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Wu is nothingness, emptiness, non-existence Thirty spokes of a wheel all join at a common hub yet only the hole at the center allows the wheel to spin Clay is molded to form a cup yet only the space within allows the cup to hold water Walls are joined to make a room yet only by cutting out a door and a window can one enter the room and live there
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