| The core idea of the dharma is that we can achieve sunyata and become unified with the void if we follow the noble eight-fold path and release ourselves from the cycle of rebirth. |
| There's certainly an affinity between the Buddhist idea of sunyata of emptiness, and the Western mystical teaching of nothingness. |
| In the same way, purification of defilements is part of the process of enlightenment, and it is necessary for our ultimate realization of sunyata. |
| In all Mahayana schools, what brings enlightenment is direct realization of sunyata as a basic fact about reality. |
| Bodhisattvas, because of the intense development of their love and compassion, have come to understand sunyata, the emptiness of all phenomena. |
| A Buddha works so that others, too, may recognize sunyata, and may themselves become Buddhas. |
