emptiness and “no mind.” They do not mean that there is literally no mind; they’re saying that if you try to understand the nature of anything in the deepest sense, you will not be able to arrive at any fixed view that defines it as this or that. The Dalai Lama uses a quaint expression in colloquial Tibetan—dzugu dzug-sa mindoo—which means “There’s nothing you can put your finger oṇ” Again, this does not imply that the thing in question does not exist at all. It simply exposes the fallacy of the deeply felt, almost instinctive assumption that our self, the mind, or anything else must be
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