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Originally Posted by TGS
Here's an image I keep in my head. When we have a ring doughnut which consists of dough and a hole - the hole is that which is not the dough! However, if we remove all the dough because what we are really interested in is the hole, what becomes of the hole? It's not there - the hole only exists in relation to the dough. And so it is with the transcended - it has the appearance of being something from the point of view of the empirical but if we try divest ourselves of our empirical realist framework we find only the hole - emptiness.
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To an artist, the hole is the negative space, dough the positive. Both are essential to the whole....