Emptiness. Or nothing?

1140.139 - 1176.038 Alex Wilding

Or, since appearances are indeed here, we can work with them, seeing them not as real things, but as expressions, or it's sometimes even said that they are ornaments of the empty luminous mind. This is of course a more tantric approach. One short answer to the question of what is emptiness is therefore that nothing exists in itself, but neither is there an absence of existence.