“Shunyata is sanskrit for nothingness, and it’s supposed to be the ultimate reality. But as you know if you know anything about these doctrines, this doesn’t mean real nothingness, not kind of just nothing there at all, not just blank. It means no thingness. It’s the transcendental reality behind all separate and individual things and that’s something very deep and profound. So he knows that when the teacher said I have nothing to teach he meant this very esoteric no thing.”
— Alan Watts, Philosophies of Asia
