Are all things empty? - Nagarjuna & The Buddhist Middle Way
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The Importance of Emptiness in Buddhism
Many have taken this to me in that Nagajuna affirmed a kind of existential nihilism. What he and the Madhyamakas are saying is not that nothing exists at all, but rather that there is nothing that has an intrinsic or inherent nature or essence. Everything is dependent on everything else. And nothing has an intrinsic nature to it. So in that sense, it's kind of true that nothing exists because there are no things to exist in the world.
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