The Buddha said, “I’m not going to tell you one way or another; but if you are real, then where are you? And if the world is real, then where is it?” In Buddhism we talk about emptiness because when we start to investigate that self, we can’t find anything solid or substantial. There’s a sense of self—a shadow. We have eyes and visual consciousness—that is a sense of “me.” We have touch and feeling—that is a sense of “me.” We have memories, thoughts, actions, and speech, all adding up to a sense of “me.” We have a body and the pleasure and pain that come with that, and those things are “me,”
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