Talk:Emptiness

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any solutions or treatments for it?

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[edit] One hand clapping

This might not be important, but the solution to the "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" riddle is supposed to be a one syllable Japanese word (I don't know what it is) that means emptiness. Maybe that should be mentioned?Nashaii 00:37, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

You mean "Kuu (çİş)"? Yeah, that's actually (almost) a synonyme to emptiness, but it already has it's own article (under it's sanskrit name: Shunyata). 81.224.28.222 19:01, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources?

This article does not cite any sources at all. The sentences are speculative and without evidence. Anyone with references on this subject, please feel free to add to or change this article. 72.1.218.59 04:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

"Engaging in any social interaction." i dont know about you but this makes matters worse is almost all cases; rejection, envy, guilt, ect.. 76.211.122.99 05:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Why is the article aggressive in trying to point out the negative shades of emptiness? Describing the emotion is different from judgmental explanations. Perhaps a more neutral point of view would be more appropriate over here.

I feel empty. And I don't know what to do about it anymore. I feel hollow. Like I'm not a person... like I'm nothing. As if I've never lived or talked or thought anything. All I want is darkness. Darkness and Silence.

Me too.

Darkness and silence? I don't really know about that one, sounds more like a depression to me, but I too am experiencing emotional "emptiness", and "hollow" and "nothing" are perfect descriptions of how it feels... Speaking of which, who vandalized this page? The September version looked good, but now everything is gone! ... I'll see if I can fix it (unless someone else already did). 81.228.148.16 14:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What?

A reduction of one's hand size by 1 (to a minimum of 3) ?????

[edit] Let's spiff this article up a bit...

Seriously, we badly need to get some order on this article. I'd understand if there isn't especially many sources about emptiness (if seems to be generally overlooked for some reason) but I suppose we could still contribute as well as cut some excessive information. I might as well start then, huh? First point of order; associables.

  • It can be better described as a situation where a certain lack or lacks in one's life overtake the emotional and mental focus in an obsessive, sometimes subconscious manner.
  • Emptiness often involves alienation, be it temporary or acquired, and sometimes self-hatred.
  • If at all there was a family nucleus, their needs were ignored, they were considered second class, they experienced many separations, or there was outright abuse.

I concider the second, as well as the third, example of association are both just expansions of the first example. We could either merge all of the examples into one sentence, make it a multi-layered example argument, simply erase one or more of the examples, or choose some alternative that I haven't thought of... Thoughts, opinions, suggestions? 81.228.148.16 15:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're talking about. These are not similar statements! I think they are spot-on descriptive of the larger quantity of cases (have a look around). It could use more professional references though. --Nathanael Bar-Aur L. 22:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, the keywords I focused at were "certain lack or lacks in one's life" that are somewhat "repeated", so to speak, in the "involves alienation" (lack of social affinity), "self-hatred" (lack of self-love), "needs were ignored" (lack of attention) as well as the "outright abuse" (may cause some individuals to believe they are not wanted or not loved, I.E. lack of need, lack of love) parts, and could thus be merged into one sentence, possibly including the keyparts from the other sentences as examples... Yeah, whether the changes I want to make, be made or not, we are still in bad need of references. (Pardon eventual gramatic incorrectness, I'm feeling rather mentally de-attached right now.) 81.228.148.16 14:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)