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The focuses on this realm of emptiness or the way things really are in order to attain wisdom or enlightenment may lead to the conclusion that nothing really exists. This focus and conclusion is erroneous given that people feel something is there that can be both felt and held. It's important to note that this view can only be true when emptiness is considered as nothingness rather than the dependence on other objects.
The second important factor in understanding what emptiness is as explained in the Heart Sutra and in relation to Buddhism is the view of suffering. According to the sutra, suffering is as a result of discriminations of feeling, cognition and perception as applied to an ego's needs (Crook par, 24). On the other hand, self or ego is basically an assertion that is dependent on the feeling, cognition and perception function. When this conceptual uniqueness is integrated into a single meditative equipoise, there is liberation from all contingents suffering that a person experiences. This is because the knowledge gained in meditation permits the person to leave all such discriminations of conceptual uniqueness so that they are integrated into a single awareness. However, this declaration of suffering, its origin and stopping it through following a definite path is an empty category. Moreover, the declaration of suffering and its causes in the Heart Sutra does not provide the distinctions between suffering and its alleviation as well as the definite path to liberation (Sunim par, 50).
Conclusion:
As expressed in the Heart Sutra, ultimate reality is void or emptiness that results in the conception of all forms in the exceptional world (Leonard par, 7). Emptiness is therefore interdependence instead of nothingness as explained...
While form is the color, sound or solid object; feeling is the act of the logical organ touching the object and perception is the initial exciting awareness of the object. Moreover, while formation is the insensible response to the object, consciousness is the psychological awareness of the object.
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