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Pine Trees, by Hasegawa Tohaku, Tokyo National Museum |
There are two types of emptiness:
1) self emptiness and 2) other emptiness.
1) self emptiness and 2) other emptiness.
We may call the first “empty-emptiness” and the second “non-empty-emptiness”.
Self
emptiness means that something is empty of its own entity or self. This is the
case with any samsaric phenomena, including the outer world and inner world of
unenlightened beings.
Anything
that appears due to various combinations of causes and conditions is self
empty. Anything that changes is self-empty. Anything that can be analyzed and
divided in small fragments and atoms is self empty. Any samsaric universe with
all the various planets, solar systems and unenlightened beings living there is
self empty because they appear due to various causes and conditions, change due
to causes and conditions and disappear due to causes and conditions.