Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

c. Sunyata thought of as a substantial "thing." Some
people think, "There must be such a thing upon which to
meditate." This is another meaning, but again a wrong
one.
d. The real Buddhist philosophy of Sunyata.
Mr. Chen here leaned forward and became very
animated, emphasizing his points with definite
gestures of his hands, several times tapping on the
arm of the chair to call attention to important items.
He picked up a cocoa tin as an object of
demonstration and a full flood of definitions
regarding sunyata came from his lips, definitions he
well knew, and not by bookish experience alone. The
transcriber had difficulty in capturing all the
following on paper and sometimes took the help of
an interposed word or two from the listener.
Mr. Chen said:
We must understand that there is no void separate from
form nor is there form apart from the void. In every
form sunyata, voidness, is completely identified with
form (and feelings, etc.; everything that I call "myself").
The five skandhas are neither the same as nor different
from sunyata.
In the "exterior" world, too, sunyata is everywhere and
everything is sunyata. Some people have the idea that
the void is got at by analysis, but real sunyata is not
72