As soon as emptiness is thought of as a subtle dimension of reality or a mystical state of mind, it risks becoming fetishized as another privileged religious object. Nagarjuna, the great second century Indian thinker, was acutely aware of this danger:
Buddhas say emptiness
Is relinquishing opinions
Believers in emptiness
Are incurable
Emptiness is not something sacred in which to believe.
---Living With the Devil - by Stephen Batchelor---
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