Form is the dance partner of emptiness – and emptiness cannot be understood apart from form. Emptiness is the dance partner of form – and form cannot dance without emptiness. Form could be said to be the apparently tangible aspect of experience and existence – but form is empty. One can only understand form in the confident absence of tangibility. That does not mean however that everything is nothing. When we speak of emptiness as nothingness or voidness, we are not speaking in terms of nihilistic negation—but in terms of nothingness being inseparable from everythingness. p49, Emailing the Lamas from Afar, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9653948-5-7