the 'Final Reality' ...

"The Buddha also taught another somewhat challenging idea:

the notion of emptiness…

we can simply say it’s the view that there is no real self and no real world that exists in exactly the same way it appears to us now.

The Buddha said that when we don’t comprehend emptiness, we don’t see what’s really there –

we see only a coarse version of reality.

So from the Buddhist point of view,

there is not only no savior,

there is also no one to be saved."


-Dzogchen Ponlop