okay okay okay

apparently it's time to start a thread of metaphors for emptiness & form

so far mostly featuring

things that are topologically equivalent to donuts??
Okay, let's start with Kegan stage 5 & guitar slides, from @Meaningness :

https://vividness.live/2015/11/27/emptiness-form-and-dzogchen-ethics/
Okay, let's start with Kegan stage 5 & guitar slides, from @Meaningness : https://vividness.live/2015/11/27/emptiness-form-and-dzogchen-ethics/
Okay, let's start with Kegan stage 5 & guitar slides, from @Meaningness : https://vividness.live/2015/11/27/emptiness-form-and-dzogchen-ethics/
^^ That post is mostly talking about Dzogchen, including aspects of
emptiness and form / kadag and lhundrup /
primordial purity and spontaneous beneficent activity https://twitter.com/SarahAMcManus/status/1250132185916624901
Then we've got this post, contemplating donuts...
(which also reminded @the_aiju of David Chapman's post) https://twitter.com/the_aiju/status/1277531103478325248
And finally...

https://twitter.com/hels/status/1274843145356877829
Yes! More examples: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthwein/status/1277713303179898881
... are there any metaphors for emptiness and form that are NOT topologically equivalent to a donut? 🤔🍩
Update!
Someone who is approximately not on Twitter (lmk if you want to be cited) pointed out that the Daodejing uses these ✨NON-DONUT-EQUIVALENT✨ metaphors for emptiness and form:

- Bowl 🥣
- House with doors & windows 🏡

http://www.egreenway.com/taoism/ttclz11.htm
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