Form vs Emptiness

Form (色, 색)

All that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or felt, i.e., the sun, stars, moon, air, water, wind, fire, land, ocean, animals, fish, birds, viruses, cells, bodies, houses, chairs, books, birth, brightness ... 


Emptiness (空, 공)

Anything that cannot be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or felt, i.e., the mind, karma, ego, pains, joys, suffering, gandhabba, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, the thirty-one planes, ghosts, spirits, darkness, void, death ...

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