Sublime

Every physical object or body has come out of nothing, is surrounded by nothing, and will eventually return to nothing. Not only that, but even inside every physical body there is far more “nothing” than “something.” Physicists tell us that the solidity of matter is an illusion. Even seemingly solid matter, including your physical body, is nearly

nominalist

Você é nada. Você pode ter um nome e um título, uma propriedade e conta bancária, pode ter poder e ser famoso. Mas, apesar de todas essas salvaguardas, você é nada. Você pode estar totalmente inconsciente desse vazio, dessa nulidade, ou pode simplesmente não querer estar consciente dele – de qualquer maneira, ele está ali, independentemente do que

the Buddha discovered that there is no need to struggle to prove our existence, that we need not be subject to the rule of the three lords of materialism.

one’s own insubstantiality and the increasing edge and energy presented by life, all within the universal realm of nonexistence and the sacredness of what is. As one progresses along the path, the unworkability of samsaric states of mind and samsaric pursuits closes in like a circle of fire drawing ever nearer. Opportunities to surrender to the

no emptiness emerges,

doctrine of emptiness, in which all entities are seen as dependent in time or space on other entities and thus empty of any nature of their own and hence not in themselves or of themselves real.

what appears to us to be samsara is really nirvana, and that what appears to be the world of form (rupa) is really the void (sunya). Hence the famous saying: Form is not different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from form. Form is precisely emptiness; emptiness is precisely form.6