Sunday, 29 December 2013

Emptiness (Buddhism style)

Emptiness in terms of the human condition  is a definition in Buddhism that gets to the root of why the philosophical basis of Buddhist reasoning is so hard to fault. Religions are generally based on faith, a creator, a maker of the world and everything in it. To believe in any of the main religions one has to believe in the permanence of everything having been created by god or by human beings. Everything has a label and we attach labels onto things which come into our conciousness. 
The labels are the result of communication and the agreement of people in general to use the same label so long as the definition we use to describe the object of our thought confirms that we are in agreement.
Language ties us into a convenient school of thought which classifies and categorises everything within our experience. 


If we begin to question this convenience as a man made artefact we then have to re-examine the very substance of the presumption of everything, not deny its existence but question the way we arrived at our our logic. If we question our logic, we question many of our presumptions about life and the labels we attach to the things around us and most importantly to ourselves.
It becomes open season to re-evaluate all our emotions, all our thoughts, all our actions which have occurred through the paradigm of "me" and shift the focus to a place where these labelled events that flow through our conciousness are not of our making, are not of us and have no permanence. In ridding ourselves of all this baggage we become empty with an infinite opportunity to build our own world, not encumbered with thing we can do little about.
Have I got it ??                         

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