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„Silent Sunday“ (2014)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍 University of Zurich, Main Building

#silentsunday #bnw #bnwphotography #photo #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #interior #sunday #tables #emptiness #chairs #university #photography #pattern #shapes #quiet #perspective #PhaseOne #switzerland #schweiz #Foto #SchwarzWeiss #Innenraum #SchwarzWeissFotografie #Sonntag #Tische #Leere #Stühle #stillersonntag #Pause #Universität #Fotografie #Muster #Formen #Perspektive #Ruhe

„Silent Sunday“ (2014)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍 University of Zurich, Main Building

#silentsunday #bnw #bnwphotography #photo #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #interior #sunday #tables #emptiness #chairs #university #photography #pattern #shapes #quiet #perspective #PhaseOne #switzerland #schweiz #Foto #SchwarzWeiss #Innenraum #SchwarzWeissFotografie #Sonntag #Tische #Leere #Stühle #stillersonntag #Pause #Universität #Fotografie #Muster #Formen #Perspektive #Ruhe

„Silent Sunday“ (2014)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍 University of Zurich, Main Building

#silentsunday #bnw #bnwphotography #photo #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #interior #sunday #tables #emptiness #chairs #university #photography #pattern #shapes #quiet #perspective #PhaseOne #switzerland #schweiz #Foto #SchwarzWeiss #Innenraum #SchwarzWeissFotografie #Sonntag #Tische #Leere #Stühle #stillersonntag #Pause #Universität #Fotografie #Muster #Formen #Perspektive #Ruhe

„Silent Sunday“ (2014)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍 University of Zurich, Main Building

#silentsunday #bnw #bnwphotography #photo #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #interior #sunday #tables #emptiness #chairs #university #photography #pattern #shapes #quiet #perspective #PhaseOne #switzerland #schweiz #Foto #SchwarzWeiss #Innenraum #SchwarzWeissFotografie #Sonntag #Tische #Leere #Stühle #stillersonntag #Pause #Universität #Fotografie #Muster #Formen #Perspektive #Ruhe

„Silent Sunday“ (2014)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍 University of Zurich, Main Building

#silentsunday #bnw #bnwphotography #photo #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #interior #sunday #tables #emptiness #chairs #university #photography #pattern #shapes #quiet #perspective #PhaseOne #switzerland #schweiz #Foto #SchwarzWeiss #Innenraum #SchwarzWeissFotografie #Sonntag #Tische #Leere #Stühle #stillersonntag #Pause #Universität #Fotografie #Muster #Formen #Perspektive #Ruhe

"What I didn't expect was how difficult it would be. I relate it somewhat to the feeling I have with working out. Often times I want to avoid it because it's hard, but I'm always happy when I push through and complete it."

#focus #emptiness #meditation

https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/

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☸️ Tendency (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #Emptiness #Vipassana #Enlightenment #BuddhaQuotes
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn18.21

A quotation from Robert Banks Stewart

   HUCKLE: As far as we know, the sea was calm and empty.
   THE DOCTOR: It may be calm, but it’s never empty.

Robert Banks Stewart (1931-2016) Scottish screenwriter, television producer, journalist
Doctor Who (1963), 13×01 “Terror of the Zygons,” Part 1 (1975-08-30)

More about this quote: wist.info/stewart-robert-banks…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #zygons #terrorofthezygons #calmness #doctorwho #emptiness #ocean #perspective #presence #sea #surface #undersea

Bearbeitet:

Are we in the age of What and not How?
#emptiness #english #fractures #impress #outcome #perfect #prompt

https://www.fortschrittsanzeige.de/are-we-in-the-age-of-what-and-not-how/

With AI the old saying "ideas mean nothing" gets fractures. You can enter text and it crea

#gloom #emptiness #cold #winter #snow #photography #nature

#gloom #emptiness #cold #winter #snow #photography #nature

#gloom #emptiness #cold #winter #snow #photography #nature

‪The Zen Art Center‬
‪@zenartcenter.bsky.social‬
· now
Emptying the mind isn’t about loss.
It’s about making space.

When expectations fall away,
new possibilities reveal themselves.

🎥 Short reflection →
https://youtube.com/shorts/PDp7953CQiI

#Zen #Emptiness #ClearMind #Meditation #Awareness #Possibility

#Buddhism and #QuantumPhysics both challenge classical views of independent, permanent entities. #Buddhist notions like #DependentOrigination and #emptiness hold that phenomena lack inherent essence and exist only relationally. #QM shows #reality as probabilistic & context-dependent, w properties emerging through interaction. Though methodologically distinct, both unsettle substance-based #ontologies and stress the relational nature of existence.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_quantum_physics/

#WeekendStories

#Buddhism and #QuantumPhysics both challenge classical views of independent, permanent entities. #Buddhist notions like #DependentOrigination and #emptiness hold that phenomena lack inherent essence and exist only relationally. #QM shows #reality as probabilistic & context-dependent, w properties emerging through interaction. Though methodologically distinct, both unsettle substance-based #ontologies and stress the relational nature of existence.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_quantum_physics/

#WeekendStories

#Buddhism and #QuantumPhysics both challenge classical views of independent, permanent entities. #Buddhist notions like #DependentOrigination and #emptiness hold that phenomena lack inherent essence and exist only relationally. #QM shows #reality as probabilistic & context-dependent, w properties emerging through interaction. Though methodologically distinct, both unsettle substance-based #ontologies and stress the relational nature of existence.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_quantum_physics/

#WeekendStories

#Buddhism and #QuantumPhysics both challenge classical views of independent, permanent entities. #Buddhist notions like #DependentOrigination and #emptiness hold that phenomena lack inherent essence and exist only relationally. #QM shows #reality as probabilistic & context-dependent, w properties emerging through interaction. Though methodologically distinct, both unsettle substance-based #ontologies and stress the relational nature of existence.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_quantum_physics/

#WeekendStories

#Buddhism and #QuantumPhysics both challenge classical views of independent, permanent entities. #Buddhist notions like #DependentOrigination and #emptiness hold that phenomena lack inherent essence and exist only relationally. #QM shows #reality as probabilistic & context-dependent, w properties emerging through interaction. Though methodologically distinct, both unsettle substance-based #ontologies and stress the relational nature of existence.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-17-buddhism_and_quantum_physics/

#WeekendStories

@wilsonhurley #Buddhist #philosophy, thank you for sharing however, there is a technical meaning, but it’s been flattened into a cryptic slogan. The real idea: “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” The meme version (“two sides of the #existence coin”) turns it into a shallow dualism, as if #appearances and #emptiness were just opposites to flip between. The original warns against that — they’re not separate.

#Zen #Buddhism's concept of #tathatā or #suchness expresses reality as it is — free from conceptual overlay. Interwoven with #emptiness (#śūnyatā), #DependentOrigination, and #interpenetration, suchness is not transcendence but direct, embodied encounter. This non-dual insight is central to #Mahāyāna thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-15-suchness_as_reality/

#WeekendStories

#Zen #Buddhism's concept of #tathatā or #suchness expresses reality as it is — free from conceptual overlay. Interwoven with #emptiness (#śūnyatā), #DependentOrigination, and #interpenetration, suchness is not transcendence but direct, embodied encounter. This non-dual insight is central to #Mahāyāna thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-15-suchness_as_reality/

#WeekendStories

#Zen #Buddhism's concept of #tathatā or #suchness expresses reality as it is — free from conceptual overlay. Interwoven with #emptiness (#śūnyatā), #DependentOrigination, and #interpenetration, suchness is not transcendence but direct, embodied encounter. This non-dual insight is central to #Mahāyāna thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-15-suchness_as_reality/

#WeekendStories

#Zen #Buddhism's concept of #tathatā or #suchness expresses reality as it is — free from conceptual overlay. Interwoven with #emptiness (#śūnyatā), #DependentOrigination, and #interpenetration, suchness is not transcendence but direct, embodied encounter. This non-dual insight is central to #Mahāyāna thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-15-suchness_as_reality/

#WeekendStories

#Zen #Buddhism's concept of #tathatā or #suchness expresses reality as it is — free from conceptual overlay. Interwoven with #emptiness (#śūnyatā), #DependentOrigination, and #interpenetration, suchness is not transcendence but direct, embodied encounter. This non-dual insight is central to #Mahāyāna thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-15-suchness_as_reality/

#WeekendStories

#Huayan #Buddhism advances #Nāgārjuna’s insight on #emptiness (#sunyata) by articulating the doctrine of #interpenetration: all phenomena mutually contain and reflect each other, as in Indra’s Net. This vision of radical relationality redefines reality as a seamless web, with profound ethical and philosophical implications. I put together key aspects of this doctrine and its reception in the Buddhist tradition in my latest post:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-19-interpenetration/

#WeekendStories

#Nāgārjuna's #Madhyamaka #philosophy articulates #śūnyatā (#emptiness) and the two truths, dismantling the notion of intrinsic essence and affirming the interdependent, provisional nature of all phenomena. This insight avoids both #nihilism and #essentialism, shaping #Mahāyāna and #Zen thought. In this post, I summed up the key aspects of this profound teaching and its implications for #Buddhist practice:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-sunyata_and_two_truths/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Nāgārjuna, founder of the #Madhyamaka school, clarified the Buddhist doctrine of #emptiness (#śūnyatā) as the absence of intrinsic essence in all phenomena. His dialectical method deconstructs fixed views, reinforcing #DependentOrigination and non-self (#anatta) as central to liberation in #Mahayana thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-nagarjuna/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Nāgārjuna, founder of the #Madhyamaka school, clarified the Buddhist doctrine of #emptiness (#śūnyatā) as the absence of intrinsic essence in all phenomena. His dialectical method deconstructs fixed views, reinforcing #DependentOrigination and non-self (#anatta) as central to liberation in #Mahayana thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-nagarjuna/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Nāgārjuna, founder of the #Madhyamaka school, clarified the Buddhist doctrine of #emptiness (#śūnyatā) as the absence of intrinsic essence in all phenomena. His dialectical method deconstructs fixed views, reinforcing #DependentOrigination and non-self (#anatta) as central to liberation in #Mahayana thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-nagarjuna/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Nāgārjuna, founder of the #Madhyamaka school, clarified the Buddhist doctrine of #emptiness (#śūnyatā) as the absence of intrinsic essence in all phenomena. His dialectical method deconstructs fixed views, reinforcing #DependentOrigination and non-self (#anatta) as central to liberation in #Mahayana thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-nagarjuna/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Nāgārjuna, founder of the #Madhyamaka school, clarified the Buddhist doctrine of #emptiness (#śūnyatā) as the absence of intrinsic essence in all phenomena. His dialectical method deconstructs fixed views, reinforcing #DependentOrigination and non-self (#anatta) as central to liberation in #Mahayana thought.

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-nagarjuna/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

Your mind is always empty—yet it gives rise to everything. From this space, all energy, form, and experience arise—just as waves arise from the still ocean.

#Zen #Emptiness #Mind #Consciousness #CreativeEnergy #Awareness #ClearMind #WhatIsTheMind #DharmaTalk #SpiritualAwakening #Reality #LetGo

https://youtube.com/shorts/s5XZeCxNLKg

Your mind can hold everything in the universe—but it can never be filled. Unlike a room that can be filled with objects, your mind remains unchanging and infinite—no matter what thoughts or ideas arise within it.

#Zen #Mind #Consciousness #Awareness #Emptiness #Meditation #Nonduality #SpiritualAwakening #ClearMind #Mindfulness #DharmaTalk #WhatIsTheMind #LetGo

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ly2GntS8na0

True self shines in emptiness.

🪞 ✨ 🧘

#TrueSelf #InnerLight #Emptiness #SelfDiscovery

What a cool mix and what energy!

Linking Park: The Emptiness machine

Their newest single with the new singer.

#linkinpark #emily #emptiness #machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRXH9AbT280

📰 The Ending of Things (A free, 26-page article from 2001)

Tags: #Anicca #Life #Emptiness #Motivation #Mindfulness
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/ending-of-things_brahm

📰 The Ending of Things (A free, 26-page article from 2001)

Tags: #Anicca #Life #Emptiness #Motivation #Mindfulness
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/ending-of-things_brahm

Looking Up Osaka by Bunaro

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxg3ISlTyq00

#looking #up #osaka #umeda #kansai #japan #nippon #nihon #asia #travelling #architecture #skyscrapers #tall #buildings #office #spring #day #black #white #blackandwhite #staring #above #urban #metropolis #cityscape #shapes #contrast #emptiness #canon #r

tilcara, jujuy by sergio tranquilli

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxfVryP70u00

#tilcara #jujuy #landscape #ande #emptiness #emptyspace #sudamerica #sur #argentina #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

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All that we see or seem
Is just a dream within a dream.
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#DhammaIsWhereYouFindIt #Impermanence #anicca #emptiness #sunyata #woot

Going West (c) (2023) An image from a work in process. #highway #monochrome #art #visualimage #photobased #truck #clouds #tornado #trees #ophelia #emptiness #ArtistsOfMastodon #landscape #grainy #blackandwhite #atmosphere #manipulation #image #artpoetry #poetryart #visualpoetry

Going West (c) (2023) An image from a work in process. #highway #monochrome #art #visualimage #photobased #truck #clouds #tornado #trees #ophelia #emptiness #ArtistsOfMastodon #landscape #grainy #blackandwhite #atmosphere #manipulation #image #artpoetry #poetryart #visualpoetry

Going West (c) (2023) An image from a work in process. #highway #monochrome #art #visualimage #photobased #truck #clouds #tornado #trees #ophelia #emptiness #ArtistsOfMastodon #landscape #grainy #blackandwhite #atmosphere #manipulation #image #artpoetry #poetryart #visualpoetry

Going West (c) (2023) An image from a work in process. #highway #monochrome #art #visualimage #photobased #truck #clouds #tornado #trees #ophelia #emptiness #ArtistsOfMastodon #landscape #grainy #blackandwhite #atmosphere #manipulation #image #artpoetry #poetryart #visualpoetry

Going West (c) (2023) An image from a work in process. #highway #monochrome #art #visualimage #photobased #truck #clouds #tornado #trees #ophelia #emptiness #ArtistsOfMastodon #landscape #grainy #blackandwhite #atmosphere #manipulation #image #artpoetry #poetryart #visualpoetry