Are all things empty? - Nagarjuna & The Buddhist Middle Way
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The Importance of Emptiness
Shunyatta is a useful tool to collapse all ideas about objects with inherent natures. But one needs to be careful here not to consider it a statement of ultimate reality in itself either. To Nagajuna there are no ultimate truths at all, or rather, there is no ultimate reality, not even emptiness. Emptiness is not the quote-unquote nature of things in that way. It's some trippy stuff that can be hard to wrap your head around but we kind of need to understand what he is trying to say.
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