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  2. Śūnyatā - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of emptiness as contemplated here is explained at M I.297 and S IV.296-97 as the "emancipation of the mind by emptiness" (suññatā cetovimutti) being consequent upon the realization that "this world is empty of self or anything pertaining to self" (suññam ida ṃ attena vā attaniyena vā). [16] [17]

  3. The Void (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The Void is a recurring motif in cinema, often used to symbolize existential dread, the unknown, or the metaphysical boundaries between life and death. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is one of the most iconic examples, where the vast emptiness of space represents both the awe-inspiring and terrifying aspects of the Void. The ...

  4. Tamas (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    ' darkness ') is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] The other two qualities are rajas (passion and activity) and sattva (purity, goodness). Tamas is the quality of inertia, inactivity, dullness, or lethargy.

  5. Darkness - Wikipedia

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    The Creation of Light by Gustave Doré. Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light.. Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low luminance because the hue-sensitive photoreceptor cells on the retina are inactive when light levels are insufficient, in the range of visual perception referred to as scotopic vision.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Chaos (cosmogony) - Wikipedia

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    Greek kháos means 'emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss', [a] related to the verbs kháskō and khaínō 'gape, be wide open', from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂n-, [2] cognate to Old English geanian, 'to gape', whence English yawn. [3] It may also mean space, the expanse of air, the nether abyss, or infinite darkness. [4]

  8. Tathātā - Wikipedia

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    According to Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, tathātā is merely the way things are, the truth of all things: "When tathātā is seen, the three characteristics of anicca [impermanence], dukkha [suffering], and anatta [not-self] are seen, sunnata [emptiness] is seen, and idappaccayata [specific conditionality] is seen. Tathātā is the summary of them all ...

  9. Nuqta - Wikipedia

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    The nuqta, and the phonological distinction it represents, is sometimes ignored in practice; e.g., क़िला qilā being simply spelled as किला kilā.In the text Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity, Manisha Kulshreshtha and Ramkumar Mathur write, "A few sounds, borrowed from the other languages like Persian and Arabic, are written with a dot (bindu or nuqtā).