Schopenhauer and the Heart Sutra

Schopenhauer, in the final words of his main work, compared his doctrine to the Sunyata (Emptiness) of the Heart Sutra. In Volume 1, § 71 of The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer wrote: "…to those in whom the will [to continue living] has turned and has denied itself, this very real world of ours, with all its suns and Milky Ways, is — nothing." To this, he appended the following note: "This is also the Prajna–Paramita of the Buddhists, the 'beyond all knowledge,' in other words, the point where subject and object no longer exist.”