✚ Śunyata darśana: Diogenes enlightens Plato on the essential nature of emptinesspic.twitter.com/CvaOgwJjTw
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So, the function of a cup is not eternal; once we’re extinct, it’ll return to the Dharmakaya, as all phenomena do.
Also, the emptiness of a cup is only a matter of imputation. There are air molecules in it, and other tiny bits of stuff, so it is not absolutely empty. Relative emptiness of this sort is not the same thing as śunyata; only a heuristically useful analog for it.
Very good point! I'll share my counter argument tomorrow...
1) Plato's eternal forms do not have concrete existence. They can 'participate' in concrete objects, but they exist in another dimension; they're ontologically independent of the world of particular things. We can destroy all the cups in the world, but not the form itself.
2) Forms are properties and functions that can be shared by a plurality of things; they can manifest themselves in many different ways. So your point does not really hold up. One of your assumptions is that cups can only be utilized by humans.pic.twitter.com/EP0Whqhuvq
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