What is Emptiness?
In Pali text, emptiness is Sunyata. It is actually based on the idea of Anatta and it’s one of important teachings in Buddhism and it leads to the liberation, especially in Mahayana Buddhism. In the Buddha’s teaching, the realization of emptiness is the cultivation of insight which leads to wisdom. Once the Buddha said;
The world is empty because it’s empty of self which belongs to eye, forms, eye-consciousness, and eye-contact. Whatever feeling arises with mind -contact as condition whether pleasant or painful is empty of self.
The world is empty and there is non-selfness. In the event of becoming, there is always no longer exist. It depends upon the mind what is arising. Otherwise, emptiness is insight meditation. Many scholars say it’s the way to Nibbhana after we realized insight of self. I however understand that emptiness is impermanent. This is by the cause of ‘everything is impermanent’. This is the meaning of emptiness.