Gautama Buddha Quotes About Emptiness

• Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

  Gautama Buddha

  Emptiness, Form

• Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

  Gautama Buddha

  Causes, Emptiness, Empty

• After 48 years, I have said nothing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Years, Emptiness

• The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Reality, Bird

• Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Lakes, Swans

• If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Space, Sun

• First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Book, Light

• Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Joy, Free Yourself

• Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

  Gautama Buddha

  Desire, Might, Emptiness

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