So if no thing is revealed, to what does the enlightened mind awake? Buddhist scriptures most often say that it awakens to emptiness (in Sanskrit, shunyata). This doesn't mean that the mind enters into some sort of existential void. After all, that would be a thing unto itself, if only "nothingness." Instead, the mind comes face to face with the unconditioned, the unknowable, the impalpable, the nonexistence, the nonapparent, the undifferentiated, or, for want of a better word, emptiness. Rather than being limited to grasping some thing, the mind opens up to experience total freedom.
---Jack Maguire, in Essential Buddhism---
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