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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 ...
Jeffrey Hopkins (1940 – July 1, 2024) was an American Tibetologist.He was Emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught for more than three decades beginning in 1973. [1]
Railroad crossing with cattle guards in rural South Dakota. Great Plains of Nebraska. Prairie madness or prairie fever was an affliction that affected European settlers in the Great Plains during their migration to, and settlement of, the Canadian Prairies and the Western United States in the 19th century.
Amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, violence against Palestinians in the occipied West Bank is on the rise. Settlers and the IDF have killed more than 100 Palestinians. ... “I feel emptiness in ...
In his book, Gudmunsen mainly compares Wittgenstein's later philosophy with Madhyamaka views on the emptiness of thought and words. [56] One of Wittgenstein's students, the Sri Lankan philosopher KN Jayatilleke, wrote Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge which interpreted the epistemology of the early Buddhist texts analytically.
The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness (śūnyatā), emptiness is form." It has been called "the most frequently used and recited text in the entire Mahayana Buddhist tradition." [2] The text has been translated into English dozens of times from Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, as well as other source languages.
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
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.