The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet by Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan

Author:Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781400080793
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 2004-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

A correct understanding of emptiness thus stops us from falling into the traps of realism or nihilism. Meditation on emptiness attenuates the belief in the real existence of things. But you mustn't become attached to emptiness as a belief. If you do, you will relapse into nothingness. In the Garland of Jewels, Nagarjuna writes, “Since we find nothing real, how can we find something unreal? Indeed, the ‘nonexistent’ can only be conceived of in relation to what is existent.” In his Fundamental Treatise on Wisdom, he concludes:

When emptiness is wrongly understood,

It leads the ignorant to their perdition.

And thus in neither “is” nor “is not”

Does the sage abide.

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