Emptiness in mind and in reality
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Recent exchange here got me thinking. Nagarjuna's karika, 1.3 (Batchelor)
> Na hi svabhāvo bhāvānāṃ pratyayādiṣu vidyate
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> Avidyamāne svabhāve parabhāvo na vidyate
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> The essence of things does not exist in conditions and so on.
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>If an own thing does not exist, an other thing does not exist.
There is a venerable tradition of different interpretations of Nagarjuna, based on "the two truths".
***Can that phrase be read to mean*** **emptiness does not exist in non-emptiness: if and only if an own thing does not exist in non-emptiness then an other thing does not exist in emptiness**
So the first phrase says that emptiness is empty in the sense that the absence of svabhava does not exist in things. After that, that whenever a self caused thing cannot be found, then there is no other empty thing.
I don't think it's a normal interpretation?
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For the purposes of my philosophical question elsewhere (a neat argument for karma and rebirth) I have rendered 'empty' to mean 'analytic' and 'non-empty' to mean empirical.
> *Definition of analytic. Of or relating to analysis or analytics
> especially : separating something into component parts or constituent
> elements.*
>*Definition of empirical. Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.*

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Feb 5, 2020, 03:01 AM
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