Towards Emptiness

In line with a Buddhist tradition, Towards Emptiness offers an alternative to the philosophical process, and explores practical methods by which we might begin to solve the basic enigma of our existence. In part one, the key figures in the great movements of philosophy are considered in some detail, with a view to throwing a gradual light on a radical change in outlook. Part two takes the form of a personal exploration of reality through the disciplines of meditation. ‘Many philosophers have asked why there is something rather than nothing. I think the answer to that lies in the realisation that there has never been either something or nothing, neither being nor non-being. That such questions are ‘false’ according to Russell’s outline of definite descriptions...'