Emptiness. Or nothing?

428.388 - 458.827 Alex Wilding

Our minds also contain thoughts and attitudes and emotions that together make up what we call our consciousness. So far so good. Or perhaps not. What indeed are these dharmas? Are these actually independent things? Or is it not rather the case that they all themselves only exist in relation to other things and other dharmas? Are the particles of earth, for example, themselves without parts?