Sublime

True emptiness is also empty of emptiness and thus includes all things.

He wondered what really happened / who spoke just now and who listened / who saw and what was seen / and where did those cities and buddhas go:

Wang argues that, after the imperial unification, tianxia cosmology became subordinated to the imperial state (guo) and the earlier distinction between the Zhou imperial state and the realm of tianxia began to disappear.

shunyata (emptiness), the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, and everything is therefore empty, and this emptiness is the true nature of reality.

TE-CH’ING says, “Sages move through the world with an empty self and accept the way things are. Hence, they leave no tracks. They do not insist that their own ideas are right and accept the words of others. Hence, they reveal no flaws. They do not care about life and death, much less profit and loss.

Hui-neng says, “If people can hear this sutra and realize its truth, both self and other suddenly vanish, and they at once become buddhas. Renouncing the body has limited merit and cannot compare with the unlimited wisdom of upholding this sutra.”

HO-SHANG KUNG says, “Others seek the ornamental. Sages seek the simple. Others seek form. Sages seek Virtue. Others study facts and skills. Sages study what is natural. Others learn how to govern the world. Sages learn how to govern themselves and how to uphold the truth of the Way.