Nagarjuna suggested we collapse the distinction between 'conventional' and 'ultimate' truth altogether. Ultimate truth can then be thought of simply as the negation of conventional truths. So "ultimate" is ultimately just as empty as the conventional. Nothing special about it.
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @rubot
The emptiness of the conventional is the ultimate. On a conventional level, things appear. On an ultimate level, appearances are empty. The two truths are inseparable, so how could one negate the other?
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Let me rephrase: the "ultimate truth", or emptiness, is itself empty. The point I was trying to make is that emptiness is not a transcendent and magical reality that one gains access to.
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Emptiness is, as you said, what appearances "ultimately" are. We only use the term ultimate because we're stuck with it. It's not another existent entity "underneath" or "beyond" convention which is somehow an exception to the rule.
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