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The Ceasing of Notions – 10 The Way, Spirit and Energy
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The Ceasing of Notions [or the Treatise on the Transcendence of Cognition]
27. Emmon asks ‘Earlier on you said that the Way comes from emptiness. Is emptiness then the same as Buddha?'
Master Nyuri : ’Yes, the same'.
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28. Emmon asks ‘But if he is emptiness, then why did the Buddha not guide people toward emptiness rather than teaching them to repeat his name?'
Master Nyuri : ’Ordinary people are taught to repeat the name of the Buddha. The teaching of insight into the true form of the self are for those who know the Way. This is insight into the Buddha, for it is said that true form is no-form or emptiness'.