According to Mahayana, everything is empty.
Why, then, should we be moral? How can we be sure what is moral? No one has satisfactory answers, despite many ingenious attempts by brilliant philosophers.īuddhism has wrestled with the same problem for much longer: most of two thousand years. All attempts to find an alternative foundation have failed. God’s commands once provided a firm foundation for morality but then he died. Emptiness, form, and Dzogchen ethics | Vividness Emptiness, form, and Dzogchen ethicsįor a hundred years, the West has wrestled with the problem of ethical nihilism.