Even profound concepts are ultimately empty: the Ultimate Path is wordless, and if we speak, we go astray from it. Though we may characterize the fundamental basis as “empty by nature,” there is no “fundamental basis” that can be labeled. Emptiness itself is wordless: it is not a mental construct. :Aegis:
From a purely argumentative perspective, this is self-defeating. Aside from that, it's fairly obvious.
I am making NO comment about the relevance between the use of the Call Aegis sign and the notion of the empty mind.
Sooooo, essentially, you're telling an entire discussion board to shut up because we're going off the Ultimate Path? Awesome! Detours are more fun anyway
It's not concepts that are described as ultimately empty, it's all phenomena (any observed event).. Which is anything that is or can be an object of consciousness. Phenomena are also said to have an intermidiate status between real and unreal.. (If i remember rightly) Aswell 'empty' has a particular meaning here in the Indian philosophy context that is not our everyday use of the word. Akin to transient rather than nothing being there. Concepts are certainly the product of thought, which is indeed transient. At some point I'll attempt to expand on the meaning of emptiness in the philosophical context here. By "fundemental basis" i assume you refer to something like ultimate reality? label it we may well do, but knowing, describing, communicating it is something else ..
