Empticism: Art and Thoughts about Emptiness

If those who are like wanton children

Are by nature prone to injure others,

What point is there in being angry-

Like resenting fire for its heat ?

(Santideva)

He who knows that his body is like foam, he who clearly comprehends that it is of nature of a mirage,

Such a man will break the flower-tipped arrows of Mara and will go where the King of Death will not see him.

(Dhammapada)

Without realizing the unity of Bliss and Void, Even though on the Void you meditate, You practice only Nihilism

(Milarepa)

As sweet as honey, thinks a fool an evil deed, so long as it bears no fruit;

But when it bears fruit, then the fool comes to grief.

(Dhammapada)