new fortune.

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@@ -38082,3 +38082,14 @@ religions are the same, there is no conflict.  This is something we must
 emphasize.  We must consider the question of religious diversity from this
 viewpoint.  And when we do, we find no conflict.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+~
+Emptiness vs.  Non-Existence
+
+The doctrines of emptiness and selflessness do not imply the non-existence of
+things.  Things do exist.  When we say that all phenomena are void of self-
+existence, it does not mean that we are advocating non-existence, that we are
+repudiating that things exist.  Then what is it we are negating?  We are
+negating, or denying, that anything exists from its own side without depending
+on other things.  Hence, it is because things depend for their existence upon
+other causes and conditions that they are said to lack independent self-
+existence.