缘起性空Conditioned Arising is Empty in Nature

五蕰是空，因为因缘所生。All phenomena rise and perish, dependent on causes and conditions. Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness indicates change. Things that change has no permanent nature and so is emptiness. The 5 aggregates like forms, sensation, perception, volition and consciousness have no permanent nature and so are emptiness. 

Emptiness in nature while existence produced by causes and conditions, which involves change, not remaining in the same state. Since it is ever changing in appearance, its nature changes. They exist out of emptiness, in their existence you see emptiness. Just like a seed exists for the time being due to the results of causes and conditions coming together, the seed is perceived as emptiness. Its nature is empty so it can change. Conditional arising means things exist by causes and conditions. But emptiness can also mean many possibilities! With the suitable causes and conditions, the seed will sprout, then to plant and then wilt for example; all these dependent on the causes and conditions. 

A lot of suffering is due to people attachment to desire, forms be it sound, materialism, hatred that has no permanent nature. When you contemplate on五蕰是空, you will let go attachment and be more at peace. Once you contemplate that aggregates are emptiness, why be angry, sad or worry over a form that is temporary? Realizing emptiness does not negate phenomenal existence. All phenomena are there yet if remain undisturbed by them in our minds, then we don’t experience any affliction, or be affected by all kind of negative reactions.