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[Dalai Lama:] We are all persuaded that we live independently one
from another, that a hand, a sheet of paper have separate
existences. . . . [But] the profound nature of this hand is to
belong to a whole network of influences, none of which is lasting. . . .
If each living creature, if every object enjoyed an independent
existence, no other factor could influence it. Now, we see that
these influences, these relations, are multiple and incessant. . . .
Hence, form is "empty," that is to say, nonseparate,
nonindependent. . . . Form develops in that void, in that absence
of independent existence. The void is there only to lead to form.
It can't be otherwise. . . . Thus we have a sheet of paper which is
empty. Empty, that is full.
Full of the entire cosmos.
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