Common sense isn't.
| Quote of the moment |
| The void, shunyata, among the four fundamental Buddhist notions (the three others being impermanence, interdependence, and suffering) is certainly the most mysterious and hard to grasp. What is this immense edifice of experience and thought that in the end only opens up on an absence of substance? What would be the foundation of that edifice and of the mind that built it? If the void is the only reality that isn't illusory, who escapes the net of all maya? Who has cast this net? Can one live over a dizzying void? Can we imagine a dream without a dreamer? The void is a scientific notion. We are empty; the matter that composes us is, so to speak, empty. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, October 9, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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