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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 ...
In a famous passage, the Heart sutra, a later but influential Prajñāpāramitā text, directly states that the five skandhas (along with the five senses, the mind, and the four noble truths) are said to be "empty" (sunya): Form is emptiness, emptiness is form Emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness
The Frustration/Reward Layer: feeling powerless about how to get real satisfaction in life. The Safety Layer: feeling powerless to insure personal safety. The Rebellion Layer: feeling powerless to appropriately assert personal independence. The Emptiness Layer: feeling powerless to fill oneself up when feeling empty inside.
There is no emptiness just "floating around out there" or a "Great Emptiness from which everything else arises." For example, a table is empty of inherently being a table from its own side. This is referred to as "the emptiness of the table." The emptiness of the table exists conventionally as a property of that particular table.
According to Nagarjuna, emptiness-samadhi is the samādhi in which one recognises that the true natures of all dharmas are absolutely empty (atyantaśūnya), and that the five aggregates are not the self , do not belong to the self (anātmya), and are empty (śūnya) without self-nature.
What you'll notice about a lot of the emotions that people feel in their stomach ( butterflies, the gutwrench, the knot) is that they're all different ways of experiencing the same emotion: stress.
In the sutra, Avalokiteśvara addresses Śariputra, explaining the fundamental emptiness of all phenomena, known through and as the five aggregates of human existence : form , feeling , volitions (saṅkhāra), perceptions , and mind . Avalokiteśvara famously states, "Form is Emptiness (śūnyatā).
The Sanskrit version of the "Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra" ("Heart Sutra"), which may have been composed in China from Sanskrit texts, and later back-translated into Sanskrit, [note 24] states that the five skandhas are empty of self-existence, [77] [note 25] [note 26] [note 27] and famously states "form is emptiness, emptiness is form. [77]