Oct 30, 2025
Emptiness and Form: The Ontology of the Void
To speak of emptiness is to speak of the most misunderstood concept in both metaphysics and lived practice, for the human intellect recoils before the notion of nothingness, attempting to populate the void with conceptual scaffolds rather than inhabit it. Yet in the Buddhist articulation of śūnyatā (शून्यता, emptiness), the void is not negation but plenitude—the inexhaustible field of potential…
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