"People confuse two different levels of truth, the relative (or conventional) and the ultimate (or absolute). The conventional is not ultimately true, but it's needed to point to the ultimate, and the concept of shunyata is one of the conventional truths that help us realize the ultimate, which is something that cannot be expressed in words. In other words, shunyata is itself empty: it has meaning only in relation to something that is not-empty - that is, it is useful only for pointing out that things have no self-existence, to help pry us free from our attachment to things. Ultimately, there are no such things and therefore no shunyata either. We need to let go of the concept of shunyata too, just like the Buddha's raft."

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