"Shunyata does not mean non-existence, or a void, nor does it describe some transcendent reality such as God or Brahman. Acording to Nagarjuna, shunyata simply refers to the fact that things have no essence of self-being of their own. All things arise and pass away according to causal conditions, which means they are dependent on other things that also arise and pass away."

Money, sex, war, karma

"There is no single cause for any event. Events arise dependent upon many factors, with everything in the universe colluding to make a single incident occur."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 55

"Causality lies behind this structuring of events into plots. We arrange our lives into stories by positing causal relationships between the things that happen to us. And, as Western philosophers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant have been pointing out since the eighteenth century, causality is not present in the world as we perceive it directly with our senses; it’s a structure we apply when we think about what we’re seeing and make sense of it. We might go further and say that causality is a tool of the storyteller’s art."

Being Somebody, Going Somewhere - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review - Spring 2011