Nothing is Everything?
Nothing is Everything?
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One thing I learned from reading about buddhism is that these weird sayings aren't meant to be answered literally they are meant to be contemplated in meditation. If you tried to explain what this meant you would just confuse everybody, including yourself, playing word games and miss the point entirely.
So as what scarabin is saying, detachment from the material world is a big thing in Buddhism so you could interpret it in that sense. The more you meditate on everything as nothing and nothing as everything than the more you can free your mental attachment to things. Don't try and understand it just put that image in your mind 'nothing is everything' 'everything is nothing'.