Fortune
A recent fortune cookie seems to define existential nihilism.
However, a little research suggests the opposite in Buddhism:
Emptiness is, however, not the same as nil or naught. On the contrary, emptiness means being or existence. It is emptiness that allows everything to be, to exist, to be alive, finally to live. In other words, without being empty nothing can really exist or live. Emptiness is actually the foundation that enables every existence to come into being, which reminds us of the concept “fertile void” that Fritz Perls mentioned.
Photograph by Metousiosis.
Thich Nhat Hanh writes a great essay called “Empty of What?” It seems emptiness is being empty of a separate self, so emptiness points to the interconnectedness of all existence (and nonexistence?) Check out my post today, July 4.
“spaciousness” “Ruminess”?