Yes it does.

Just as an aside .....Nagarjuna based some of his verses on a sutta which can be found in the Pali Canon.

Chapter 14 of the Mulamadhyamakakarika 'Examination of Essence' relates directly to SN 12.5 : Kaccayanagotta Sutta

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Indeed he did. Not only the Kaccayanagotta Sutta, but plenty of others as well. These connections are always a thrill to find, especially given the relevance of non-attachment to views and emptiness to everyday practice. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/grin.gif

Yes, the connections are certainly very interesting.


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Continuing with the subject of emptiness, I find the following sutta particularly poignant because I feel as though what the Buddha said has already happened.



SN 20.7 Ani Sutta: The Peg

Staying at Savatthi.

"Monks, there once was a time when the Dasarahas had a large drum called 'Summoner.' Whenever Summoner was split, the Dasarahas inserted another peg in it, until the time came when Summoner's original wooden body had disappeared and only a conglomeration of pegs remained.

"In the same way, in the course of the future there will be monks who won't listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. They won't lend ear, won't set their hearts on knowing them, won't regard these teachings as worth grasping or mastering.

But they will listen when discourses that are literary works — the works of poets, elegant in sound, elegant in rhetoric, the work of outsiders, words of disciples — are recited. They will lend ear and set their hearts on knowing them. They will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.

"In this way the disappearance of the discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — will come about.

"Thus you should train yourselves: 'We will listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. We will lend ear, will set our hearts on knowing them, will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.' That's how you should train yourselves."

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