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  2. Emptiness - Wikipedia

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    Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation, nihilism and apathy.Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, [1] depression, loneliness, anhedonia, despair, or other mental/emotional disorders, including schizoid personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and ...

  3. Śūnyatā - Wikipedia

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    After the Buddha, emptiness was further developed by the Abhidharma schools, Nāgārjuna and the Mādhyamaka school, an early Mahāyāna school. Emptiness ("positively" interpreted) is also an important element of the Buddha-nature literature, which played a formative role in the evolution of subsequent Mahāyāna doctrine and practice.

  4. Existential crisis - Wikipedia

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    Emotional aspects correspond to what it feels like to have an existential crisis. It is usually associated with emotional pain, despair, helplessness, guilt , anxiety, and loneliness. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 18 ] On the cognitive side, the affected are often confronted with a loss of meaning and purpose together with the realization of one's own end.

  5. Psychological pain - Wikipedia

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    Psychological pain, mental pain, or emotional pain is an unpleasant feeling ... Feelings of emptiness are a central problem for patients with personality disturbances ...

  6. The Void (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The Tao is described as something that cannot be named or defined, embodying the qualities of the Void—emptiness, potentiality, and the origin of all phenomena. This understanding of the Void as the root of existence reflects a non-dualistic view, where the apparent multiplicity of the world is ultimately grounded in an ineffable, empty ...

  7. No-mind - Wikipedia

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    No-mind (Chinese: 無心, pinyin: wuxin; Japanese: mushin; Sanskrit: acitta, acittika, or acintya) is a mental state that is important in East Asian religions, Asian culture, and the arts. The idea is discussed in classic Zen Buddhist texts and has been described as "the experience of an instantaneous severing of thought that occurs in the ...

  8. Mood swing - Wikipedia

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    Major depression: Major depression is a disorder with symptoms such as feelings of sadness, loss of interest, emptiness [146] and, for some people, mixed with irritability, mental overactivity, and behavioral overactivity. [147]

  9. Emotionality - Wikipedia

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    It is a measure of a person's emotional reactivity to a stimulus. [2] Most of these responses can be observed by other people, while some emotional responses can only be observed by the person experiencing them. [3] Observable responses to emotion (i.e., smiling) do not have a single meaning.