Emptiness (Shunyata)

Hiçbir şey bağımsız var olmaz. Her şey koşullara bağlı olarak ortaya çıkar. Bu nihilizm değildir; değişimi mümkün kılan durumdur.

Shunyata is one of the hardest ideas in any philosophical tradition, and one of the most misread. Nagarjuna, who developed it most rigorously in the second century CE, does not say that nothing exists. He says that nothing exists from its own side, by its own power, independently. A chariot is not its wheels, its axle, its frame — but it is not nothing either. It arises through dependence. The same holds for persons, moments of experience, even the self. What follows is not despair but relief: because nothing is fixed, nothing is locked. Change is possible. Liberation is possible. The world is empty not like a room with no furniture but like a net of mirrors, each reflecting the others, none holding its image alone.