#empty

afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes wherever the affliction leads it, and 'accumulates' a bad action. there are a great many different kinds of afflictions, but the chief of them are desire, hatred, pride, wrong view and so forth. of these, desire and hatred are chief. because of an initial attachment to oneself, hatred arises when something undesirable occurs. further, through being attached to oneself the pride that holds one to be superior arises, and similarly when one has no knowledge of something, a wrong view that holds the object of this knowledge to be non-existent arises. how do self-attachment and so forth arise in such great force? because of beginningless conditioning, the mind tightly holds to 'i, i' even in dreams, and through the power of this conception, self-attachment and so forth occur. this false conception of 'i' arises because of one's lack of knowledge concerning the mode of existence of things. the fact that all objects are empty of inherent existence is obscured and one conceives things to exist inherently; the strong conception of 'i' derives from this. therefore, the conception that phenomena inherently exist is the afflicting ignorance that is the ultimate root of all afflictions. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#empty #self #selflessness #the-middle-way #dreams

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ↗

— George W. Bush

#camel #decisive #empty #fire #going

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ↗

— Lord Byron

#go #i #mad #mind #write

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. ↗

— John Cage

#cannot #empty #empty space #fact #hear

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#blank #blank page #creativity #empty #faced

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. ↗

— Robert Carlyle

#between #empty #empty space #get #greatest

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#change #couple #empty #gotta #i

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#blair #britain #comfortable #comfortable life #created

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#empty #germany #good #huge #i

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. ↗

— Demosthenes

#action #empty #speech #unless #vain