[shunyadragon]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (justastranger,)
This is why I love Buddhism so much, semantics have no value when everything is inherently empty and empty of emptiness.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

I feel that the problem of semantics does applies to Buddhism as well, because we are languages, time and cultures appart from the original teachings.

For example, the meaning of shunya and shunyata you translate as empty and emptyness. The translation and interpretatin of these words and their meaning is not so clear. The understanding of Nirvana in the west as extinction to emptyness or nothing may not be the real meaning.

I use the words nothing and nothingness to possibly mean the unity and no boundary nature of the reality of existence where suffering ends. The nature of Nirvana remains undefined from the human point of view.

In Buddhism the nature of the source or the Divine that Christians call God is also undefined and unknowable from the human perspective. I am more comfortable with this view of God, because the contemporay western traditional view tries to over define God. It is also more compatable with my own faith Baha'i.