The words: "emptiness is form and form is emptiness", are merely intellectual conceptual designations. When such and all conceptual designations are absent, the true meaning of "emptiness is form and form is emptiness", is immediately known as the true nature of all experience. Jigme Lingpa wrote: "Here the external forms that are perceived are not designated as empty of self. When emptiness is made an intellectual object, the form and emptiness aspects of the object arise in the intellect.... Zum Artikel