A. To see issues as empty might sound nihilistic and pessimistic because the typical picture of the phrase ‘empty’ could seem to counsel ‘void’ or ‘nothing’. Vacancy in Buddhism, nevertheless, doesn’t confer with voidness, or nothingness however means fullness, oneness and perfection. All the pieces is to Vacancy as each wave is to the ocean. After we realise that the whole lot is empty, firstly, we could be conscious that the whole lot is one as vacancy in essence, simply as all waves are primarily one as the ocean.
Then, the whole lot that reaches your eyes and ears feels excellent and extra stunning, and also you come to know why Jesus mentioned that we should always love our neighbours as ourselves. Secondly, you possibly can realise that loss of life will not be the tip of your being, simply because the disappearance of a wave doesn’t imply the disappearance of water that’s the essence of water. That is known as the transcending of beginning and loss of life in Buddhism.
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