Form and content 2

Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. So it says in the Heart sutra. What does it mean?
Form is empty of form, but not of content. To be empty of form means that the form is not absolute. One particular content can have different forms.
Emptiness is form means that emptiness must be emptiness of something - of something that can have form. There is emptiness of emptiness, but not emptiness of nothing.
"Nothing" - the not existing - has no form and no emptiness.
To be aware that form is emptiness is to be aware that form can deceive. This person looking poor can be rich, an this one looking rich can be poor.
But if this person acts in an evil way, that is evil. That is no deception. So if we think that this person acting evil might be good, we are wrong. This person looking bad might be good, however.
In this world there are bad actions and bad forms. If we fight bad form by bad action, we do the wrong. Sometimes good form needs effort. That is not wrong if the individual has made a choice and accepted it. But it is wrong if the individual is just forced to do something, even if the result is good form. Form is emptiness, and thus a particular form is not very much to strive for.
The good is in itself formless, but it expresses itself in form, for example as a nice home. We can try to get the good by manifesting its form, for example a nice home. It might succeed, but it might also fail. The form of the good without the content of goodness is just a cold lifeless mask.
Form is important, but content is more important. In the society it is not that obvious, as form is the most important for certain individuals and in certain contexts. If society was more distinct in pointing out the good content, the individuals would be more happy and the form would be nicer also.