A. It is true that Emptiness and form are compared to two sides of a coin. But it doesn’t mean that it has two sides that look different from each other like the front and the back of a coin. Two sides here means rather those of your perspective. Whether a thing is Emptiness or form doesn’t depend on its own decision but on your perspective. The purpose of Buddhism is to help people who are addicted to seeing things only in one way to see them in both ways at the same time.
Student: “What happens when we see things in both ways?”
Master: “Eternity is seen in a moment.”
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