devanagari

rupat na prthak wunyata wunyataya na prthak rupam
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na, part.: no, not,

prthak, adv.: different, separated,

Emptiness is not different from the form and the form is not different from emptiness.

    Here - as if supposing his listener is not very clever - Avalokitewvara adds: the form and emptiness are identical. There is no difference between them. No form exists outside of emptiness and no emptiness exists outside of the form. Because emptiness is so far away from this world, it is also very near - they are identical.

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