NEW232Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vitarka, Mpu Prapanca, Vicara
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We have a wrong kind of expectations (e. g. static, permanence, see things as solid: non-empty). Ness" means quality/nature of something: =emptiness = there is no substantial quality of things. If we take table into apart of elements, there will be no essence of anything. Table" is just a label based on some concept. There is no real, substantial of things about a table: when conditions are changing, there is also changes in phenomenon, we should see things as a process rather than static things. Not only physical objects but ourselves are changing. Buddha cautions to avoid the 2 extremes: 1. Hinduism, scientific materialism: the world is neither illusion nor real", our subjective reality is the outcome of an interconnected interaction between stimulation of our senses and the interpretive processes of our mind. The world" is neither just out there" nor just in here".
