[Buddha-l] Emptiness and not being able to imagine dying [confused]

[Richard Hayes]

On May 25, 2010, at 6:02 AM, lemmett at talk21.com wrote:

>>>   In what sense can the emptiness of illusory existence be a  
>>> conventional truth?
> 
>> Conventional truth is, in the final analysis, the only truth there is.  
>> The very idea of truth is conventional. The notion that there are two  
>> truths is itself a conventional truth.

> Which is emptiness

No, what I described is not emptiness.

> If with that non-lingering there is no notion of truth what can vivify practice?

When practice is alive, there is no need for anything to vivify it. Only dead things need to be vivified. Forget truth. It's just another distraction.

Richard