Nothing is Everything?

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  • sarahfailin0

    uuuuuu is right that sometimes in buddhism paradoxes are meant just to be meditated upon. but this statement does allude to the buddhist concept of emptiness, that every thing lacks a permanent essence, but rather its value is contingent upon all the other things around it. since literally EVERY thing lacks a permanent ego, essence, or non-illusory nature, the whole of the universe is 'empty,' all meaning is contingent, all being temporary.

    i think it's cool that given how physics understands the structure of atoms and the distance between objects in space, it seems that the whole universe is both literally and figuratively empty

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