माध्यमिक

mādhyamaka

नागार्जुन nāgārjuna, Eight Patriarchs of 真言宗 Shingon Sect

空：śūnya 或空性：शून्यता: śūnyatā

from the root śvi, meaning "hollow"

易

It is all change and impermanence

Clearly, in order to end one's own suffering, there is nothing more important than to realize that when one acts as if the body and mind constituted a lasting, separate, independent self, one unthinkingly attributes to them qualities which they simply do not have.

Nothing in the whole stream of mental and physical phenomena that constitute one's experience of body and mind has the quality of separate, independent, lasting existence.

It is all change and impermanence, moment by moment and so none of it can be 'self and it is one's persistent effort to treat it as if it were, that makes it a constant stream of suffering दुःख (duḥkha).

– མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ mkhan po tshul khrim rgya mtsho rin po che， Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche from the book "Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness", translated and arranged by Shenpen Hookham, Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Publications (2001) ISBN 1-877294-01-2