Tag: Nagarjuna

  • Does Ultimate Reality Matter?

    There’s a sharp objection to any philosophy built on emptiness as ultimate reality: we don’t live in emptiness. We live here, in conventional reality – in relationships, responsibilities, and deadlines. So what does it matter that reality is ultimately empty, that phenomena arise without intrinsic existence, or that the self is a convenient fiction? None…

  • The Universe in a Single Atom

    With the work on Nothing Becomes and Living in the Moment complete, I’ve turned my focus even deeper on those ideas. During the work on Nothing Becomes, I was introduced to a Buddhist thinker Nagarjuna, who I plan on examining deeply in a future book. However, Nagarjuna’s work is highly demanding, and I want to…