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**DenisLevvin** · 06-27-2011, 07:59 PM

What part of nagarjuna's explanation that you cite here is an ontological argument do you not understand?

And how is the following (from SN 35.85) not "ontological"?

Then Ven. Ananda went to the Blessed One and on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One, "It is said that the world (loka) is empty, the world is empty, lord. In what respect is it said that the world is empty?"

"Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty."

06-27-2011, 07:59 PM	#23
DenisLevvin Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 524 Senior Member	What part of nagarjuna's explanation that you cite here is an ontological argument do you not understand? And how is the following (from SN 35.85) not "ontological"? Then Ven. Ananda went to the Blessed One and on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One, "It is said that the world (loka) is empty, the world is empty, lord. In what respect is it said that the world is empty?" "Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty."
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