By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: March 7, 2013
According to the theory of emptiness, any belief in an objective reality grounded in the assumption of independent existence is untenable. All things and events, whether material, mental, or even abstract concepts like time, are devoid of objective, independent existence. To possess such independent existence would imply that things and events are somehow complete unto themselves, and are therefore entirely self-contained. But we know there is cause and effect ...