ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
Metaphors for emptiness include, that it's like a dream, mirage, echo, illusion, magical display.
Actually, it's also referred to in Taoist beliefs Sky.
Nothing gave birth to the 10,000 things.
I don't know much about Taoism, ABS. What's tricky in discussing "emptiness" is that it ISN"T nothingness.
That would be nihilism. Which Buddhism rejects as an "extreme view". Similarly, Buddhism rejects eternalism, as another "extreme view".
The Four Extremes, are nihilism, eternalism, both and neither. All rejected.
Quick question............why do Buddhists reject eternalism, when the very focus of their practice is to become a Buddha and re-join the original energy? Wouldn't doing something like that be akin to becoming eternal?