Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00093)

    According to an ancient private commentary quoted by H.P.B. in the SECRET DOCTRINE 
    (SD I 289) "there is not one finger's breath (angula) of void Space in the whole Boundless (Universe)...
    
    Dallas, Emptiness as used in Budddhism does not mean a vacuum or lack of things.
    
    "1. Emptiness is not absence, and
      2. Emptiness is not annihilation."
    
    Garma C. C. Chang The Buddhist Teaching of Totality, p. 62.
    
    Modern physics now agree that there is no such thing as a vacuum
    because even "empty" space is filled with virtual particles.
    
    Jerry S.