Emptiness

Word EMPTINESS
Character 9
Hyphenation emp ti ness
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Emptiness"

What do we mean by emptiness?

The state or feeling of being empty.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Emptiness

The word "emptiness" in example sentences

In advocating what he calls emptiness, he is in effect saying that it is possible to achieve all the benefits of Daoist emptiness without trying to achieve that extreme form of emptiness. ❋ Robins, Dan (2007)

This is what I call the emptiness of having everything. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The feeling of emptiness is still there, so maybe i haven't completely forgiven him, and somtimes its hard to tell if i did forgive him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I kind of think all that emptiness is beautiful. ❋ Jaylake (2009)

In substance there is emptiness, he wrote, but in emptiness there is substance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The emptiness is the most notable thing about the workspace, he and his office mates have a huge amount of licences when it comes to arranging their space – the table in the second picture below is a ping-pong table created from wood they salvaged from the previous occupants remodelling of the space. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her lower-topsails hung in limp emptiness from the yards, heavy with rain and flapping soggily when she rolled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Buddha employed them when teaching people, but he never used the word emptiness when speaking in these modes. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

"Whatever notion we may have about emptiness is not emptiness," writes Glassman, "but merely an idea of emptiness." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Acknowledging an existing emptiness is also healthy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But in the next view under discussion, emptiness is not the ultimate point of reality, but rather its basis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In other words its emptiness is not in spite of its existence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the shentong view emptiness is only the basis of phenomenal appearance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One can already see that Hegel's choice of "nothingness" to designate what he understands of emptiness is at least somewhat prey to an accusation that it is truly existent, in the sense of being single, independent and lasting. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The notion of emptiness is inseparable from compassion. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nagarjuna (first to second century AD) was the Indian exponent of the Madhyamaka or "middle way" on which the view of emptiness is based. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For a Buddhist, to say that emptiness is absence of determination is a determination. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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