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10 - Emptiness and Existing

We are afraid of emptiness. But, in Indian culture, emptiness makes it possible to think about fullness. In the same way, religions ask to meditate and therefore to think in a vacuum. Is it our Western culture that makes us afraid of the fullness of emptiness? How does existence wrap emptiness?

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