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**hansen384cbh** · 11-15-2011, 07:18 AM

hi Dawn,

I thought that I answer some of your questions by changing your quote a bit. Hope this helps to think about this differently.

Perhaps, I should say the concept of sunyata! I've read many books, and it seems to be very important. I understand that all phenomena are dependent arising. I understand the concepts of cause and effect. You can think of Sunyata as the name of a theory (like Newton's First Law.) 'Dependent arising' and 'cause and effects' are the reason that a phenomenon's inherent characteristic is sunyata.

We say the characteristic of water is sunyata, because it is constantly changing, and the way it can change depends on its "Dependencies." if you add heat, water evaporate faster (i.e. changes faster.) if you make it cold, water can become ice (i.e. changes). If you leave it be, it evaporates, just slowly (i.e. changes).

So a phenomenon can become the cause of another phenomenon, it can also become the dependency of yet another phenomenon.

Everything does exist. But everything is inherently sunyata (i.e. changes all the time depending on their Nidānas.)

11-15-2011, 07:18 AM	#4
hansen384cbh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 418 Senior Member	hi Dawn, I thought that I answer some of your questions by changing your quote a bit. Hope this helps to think about this differently. Perhaps, I should say the concept of sunyata! I've read many books, and it seems to be very important. I understand that all phenomena are dependent arising. I understand the concepts of cause and effect. You can think of Sunyata as the name of a theory (like Newton's First Law.) 'Dependent arising' and 'cause and effects' are the reason that a phenomenon's inherent characteristic is sunyata. We say the characteristic of water is sunyata, because it is constantly changing, and the way it can change depends on its "Dependencies." if you add heat, water evaporate faster (i.e. changes faster.) if you make it cold, water can become ice (i.e. changes). If you leave it be, it evaporates, just slowly (i.e. changes). So a phenomenon can become the cause of another phenomenon, it can also become the dependency of yet another phenomenon. Everything does exist. But everything is inherently sunyata (i.e. changes all the time depending on their Nidānas.)
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