bodhisamaya Wrote:The superficial explanation I understand is that Shunyata is turning away from ATTACHMENT to the impermanent objects of samsara (cyclic existence) due to their impermanent and ultimately unsatisfactory nature.
So it's very similar to Fanaa.
bodhisamaya Wrote:Things do exist (in the Buddhist view) but not in the way we think they do as interpreted by our senses.
Do you mean something like this:
The Secret Beyond Matter Wrote:Most people have been conditioned to assume that the material universe we see is itself the true reality. Modern science, however, demolishes this position and discloses a very important and imposing truth.
All the information we have about the world is conveyed to us by our five senses. Thus, the world we know consists of what our eyes see, our hands feel, our nose smells, our tongue tastes, and our ears hear. We never believe that the external world can be other than what our senses present to us, since we've depended on those senses since the day we were born.
Stimulations coming from an object are converted into electrical signals and cause an effect in the brain. When we "see", we in fact view the effects of these electrical signals in our mind.
Yet modern research in many different fields of science points to a very different understanding, creating serious doubt about the "outside" world that we perceive with our senses.
For this new understanding, the starting point is that everything we perceive as external is only a response formed by electrical signals in our brain. The red of an apple, the hardness of wood—moreover, one's mother, father, family, and everything that one owns, one's house, job, and even the pages of this book—all are comprised of electrical signals only.
On this subject, the late German biochemist Frederic Vester explained the viewpoint that science has reached:
"Statements of some scientists, positing that man is an image, that everything experienced is temporary and deceptive, and that this universe is only a shadow, all seem to be proven by current science."
http://www.harunyahya.com/evolutiondeceit18.php
