no such thing as emptiness

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

Emptiness is the no-thing which makes a thing usable, useful, or in by any such means able to be used.

[3bob]

walk a mile in my shoes

 

[Stosh]

Emptiness is the no-thing which makes a thing usable, useful, or in by any such means able to be used.

Is an anvil empty?

Raw materials can be considered empty -

they have undefined- unfinished form and function

but useful tools are full , they have defined form -characteristics and are employed

 

.. but then a tool represents potential for raw materials to become product ,

and so the tool is also empty.

Swapping the word potential for empty would render much argument

Empty

 

IMO

Edited April 11, 2013 by Stosh

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

It is because an anvil is inherently empty of everything it is not, that it is able to perform the function of an anvil.


Potentiality and emptiness are vastly similar, but potential is what fills the emptiness.

You could say the emptiness was what defined the potential.

Edited April 11, 2013 by Northern Avid Judo Ant

[manitou]

Okay. Here's another angle for the anvil.

 

The utility is in what it does not do. It doesn't budge when being repeated struck with a sledge hammer by a large sweaty guy.

Edited April 11, 2013 by manitou

[C T]

 

 

 

Potentiality and emptiness are vastly similar, but potential is what fills the emptiness.

 

You could say the emptiness was what defined the potential.

You think so?

 

Im not so sure...

 

Im guessing that the emptiness cannot be filled. There is simply eternal flux, nothing remains the same for long enough to fill anything.

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

potential is impermanent and temporal. Emptiness is omnipresent.

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

potential is impermanent and temporal. Emptiness is omnipresent.

 

Comparing the quantities and elements, conditions and qualities of opposites.

 

Potential and Emptiness, Void and Form, Energy and Matter...

 

 

There is such thing as every concept, idea, and thought; each with a counter- no-such-thing.

[RongzomFan]

Emptiness means there is no arising. Thus there is no arising-duration-cessation.

 

"Nagarjuna taught , "bereft of beginning, middle, and end," meaning that the world is free from creation, duration, and destruction."
-Candrakirti

 

"Once one asserts things, one will succumb to the view of seeing such by imagining their beginning, middle and end; hence that grasping at things is the cause of all views."
-Candrakirti

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

is that why we are taught to be indomitably assertive in 'merica?