Voidness

Although they do not use the term voidness for this absence, nevertheless we can think of it as a type of voidness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although the term voidness appears primarily in the Mahayana systems, we may use the term loosely to refer to both the lack of an impossible soul of a person (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, selflessness of a person, identitylessness of a person) and the lack of an impossible soul of phenomena (chos-kyi bdag-med, selflessness of phenomena, identitylessness of phenomena), Each tenet system specifies, within the context of its own definitions, the ways of existing and “souls” that are impossible. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thus, although voidness does not correspond to the truly findably existent category voidness, which the name voidness conceptualizes, nevertheless the name voidness conventionally refers to voidness. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The conceptual categories may be: merely an audio category, as in the case of thinking the word voidness without having any idea of what it means, or both an audio category and a meaning category, as in the case of thinking the word voidness together with a meaning associated with the word, even if that meaning is inaccurate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

That second lack is usually referred to as a voidness (emptiness). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Subtle and subtlest mental activity nonconceptually cognize the same voidness, namely voidness as an absolute absence of true existence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The total absence of this impossible mode of establishing the existence of something validly knowable is what is referred to as the voidness of that object. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Third is the voidness of the result, namely the voidness of the enlightenment or the various Buddha-Bodies that we are aiming to achieve through the practice. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[Compassion regarding no object (dmigs-med snying-rje), then, is the wish for limited beings to be free from suffering and from unawareness of voidness, which is the cause of their suffering.] ❋ Beru Khyentse Rinpoche (2006)

A voidness is a static fact about some phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Anuttarayoga accesses it already when first gaining nonconceptual cognition of voidness – in other words, with the attainment of a seeing pathway mind and a first level bhumi mind. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The union of father and mother signifies blissful awareness conjoined with the realization of voidness – in other words, the realization or understanding of voidness with a blissful awareness. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It is a most difficult thing for the spirits to be in a good plight, serene and lively, when there is nothing in the body but a kind of voidness and inanity; seeing the philosophers with the physicians jointly affirm that the spirits which are styled animal spring from, and have their constant practice in and through the arterial blood, refined and purified to the life within the admirable net which, wonderfully framed, lieth under the ventricles and tunnels of the brain. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)

The Dharma masters sit crosslegged upon their lion-thrones pouring forth rivers of eloquence to huge crowds, expounding means of chiselling a way through the Mysterious Pass, or of opening the marvellous Gates of Prajna by which the voidness of giver, receiver and alms is revealed. ❋ Mumon (2005)

Each world-system has eras of formation, continuation, disintegration, and finally a period of voidness. ❋ His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2003)

[Wow dude] [are you] [ok] Yeah, I just entered the void ❋ Bright Shower Curtain (2019)

as in [simons] head is like a [voidmeaning] all [three] at once ❋ Jarren (2003)

You: Hey, let's [hang out] [tomorrow] *[10 Minutes] Later* Person: What? Hey, let's hang out tomorrow You: Voided. ❋ JoshuaDTV (2016)

Man... I just [finished] 'The [Last] of Us' today. Now I've got [The Void]. ❋ Luckyloki (2019)

This is my [void] boy, I [lub] [himb] very much. ❋ Saxyylady (2020)

[Mia]: what's up [hun]? [Julie] :I have a feeling a void and I can't seem to full it. ❋ ... Zjdbckdnznsjd (2019)

#1 Person: hey man, [are you okay]? #2 person: [I don’t know], I’ve kinda just felt [voided] lately. ❋ CloudsVVV (2021)

"I freebased some [5-MeO-DMT] and entered the void" ❋ Isak (2004)

omfg voide dont take my furnizzz "[we love] voide" [www].voide.[org] ❋ Nick Jenkins (2008)

"[Chaim] is [such a] Voidness" ❋ Berel Shemtov (2008)