Dalai Lama Quote

August
17, 2012

EMPTINESS
AND NON-EXISTENCE

The doctrines of emptiness and selflessness do not imply the non-existence of
things. Things do exist. When we say that all phenomena are void of
self-existence, it does not mean that we are advocating non-existence, that we
are repudiating that things exist. Then what is it we are negating? We are
negating, or denying, that anything exists from its own side without
depending on other things. Hence, it is because things depend for their
existence upon other causes and conditions that they are said to lack
independent self-existence.