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Opening Talk - Orienting and Relating to the Emptiness Retreat - (Meditation on Emptiness) 44 mentions

• and uh you know these teachings of emptiness thing is fair to say they're really at
• core of what he awakened to was it was emptiness and and then his teaching it was
• obvious at first but it was all actually centered around emptiness and he actually said it was because emptiness
• centered around emptiness and he actually said it was because emptiness and dependent origination we'll be
• first there is the understanding first there is the realization of emptiness or depend origination and then there is
• and so he said what did he wake up to he woke up to emptiness he woke up to dependent origination
• can feel or we can have a sense that these teachings of emptiness or the meditation this sort of the pinnacle of
• but in in another way these teachings of emptiness actually permeate the whole of the dharma but it's not in a very
• when we talk about ethics they actually have a lot to do with emptiness it's not obvious at first but the more one goes
• because it can go very deep into emptiness through generosity also through caring about ethics
• tonight that actually ends up being part of the real core of what the emptiness message is the world that we experience
• of those teachings actually have a lot to do with emptiness that's actually all i'm going to talk
• that's actually all i'm going to talk about emptiness per se tonight i want what i really want to talk about tonight
• assume as i was saying that the emptiness meditations are all difficult they're not all difficult some of them
• and potency of the teachings on emptiness is an opinion but i i uh i guess i i
• i'm sure the idea of coming on a four-week retreat on emptiness or even just the word emptiness it brings a
• four-week retreat on emptiness or even just the word emptiness it brings a welling up of joy and excitement and a
• ambivalence in relationship to teachings on emptiness some degree of ambivalence and you may even be aware of some inside
• another very common reaction is fear fear around the teachings of emptiness and fear and the experience of emptiness
• fear around the teachings of emptiness and fear and the experience of emptiness and fear around the whole
• but for most people these teachings on emptiness are and and moving in the cracks of emptiness and getting deeper
• emptiness are and and moving in the cracks of emptiness and getting deeper it's actually quite a gradual process
• meditative experiences of emptiness to whatever degree a little bit a lot whenever
• their i'll start probably tomorrow there's something about emptiness that's not difficult to understand at all
• central avenue of my practice this teachings on emptiness and all area of emptiness and i i feel very very humble
• teachings on emptiness and all area of emptiness and i i feel very very humble still around all the teachings you know
• entertain questions regarding this dharma this these teachings of emptiness they don't even entertain questions
• and he says when one sees reality in other words emptiness one achieves the supreme abode
• mostly what we're talking about is emptiness and it's possible that at times for some people it it may
• um in terms of teachings we're mostly talking about emptiness so it's a lot some of it's conceptual at times
• point there's not a lot of stories about emptiness emptiness is actually in a way the
• emptiness emptiness is actually in a way the opposite of stories it's letting go of
• i i feel very very clear that going into emptiness brings love it brings love there's absolute clarity
• about that the more the deeper i go into emptiness the more love it opens up and actually the more i go into love meta
• actually the more i go into love meta compassion etc the more emptiness it opens up they feed each other
• in different directions in other words emptiness does not bring love it might even have nothing to do with love or
• uh we'll talk about this more about for a lot of people emptiness uh
• connection and see the opening of love from emptiness others it will be obvious some will struggle and to understand
• so emptiness brings freedom as well the more we go into entrance light the more
• eventually this relationship between emptiness and love becomes completely obvious it's completely obvious just the
• obvious it's completely obvious just the word emptiness begins it's it's related to love and eventually that's obvious
• the the resin the sympathetic resonance the the togetherness of emptiness in life
• you know specific depth being offered on emptiness it's really precious and it would be a shame to just keep the mobile
• just very briefly you know sometimes people hear about emptiness and they think oh it will lead to a kind of not

Concepts, Views, Reality - (Meditation on Emptiness) 43 mentions

• we're trying to head to in terms of emptiness and understanding sometimes with paying their attention to
• this word suchness was synonymous with the word emptiness it has come to mean in the tradition the
• opposite it meant the absence of that it meant emptiness the suchness of a thing was the absence of its thinness of its
• this kind of going too far with the emptiness into kind of nothingness etc and the
• feel that we will actually uncover the full depth of understanding of emptiness just trusting appearances and
• difficult to understand certainly teachings about emptiness independent writing difficult to understand
• um and i will retouch this again um an equation of emptiness with impairments or an equation of emptiness
• um an equation of emptiness with impairments or an equation of emptiness with oneness
• teachers do as well i actually talk about emptiness etc much much simpler and more open way much more poetic way
• of course someone awakened or someone who's realized the emptiness of all that can still perceive all that but so it's
• about time talk about self but one has an understanding of its emptiness and it still appears
• intellectual assumptions and and what we want is the wisdom of the emptiness of it to also be embodied and not just
• sometimes some interpretations of teachings of emptiness and uh mad yamaka has john used that word yet
• and it's taken as the sort of highest exposition of the teachings of emptiness and some people's interpretation of that
• arising and a non-understanding of emptiness so even in the buddha's right view
• there's this kind of ripe seeing about emptiness independent rising in in the right view
• freedom uh kind of false views is what's eradicated by emptiness but darshana as views that are helpful
• at some point in some way even beyond the view of emptiness or beyond the view of anata etc but it's the raft that's
• or right from the beginning we want an understanding that emptiness also is not something inherently real
• and as such it depends on that thing the emptiness of this thing depends on that thing it doesn't exist independently of
• that thing obviously so emptiness is actually also empty
• empty emptiness is empty so at some point or right from the
• sometimes people here teaching about emptiness and feel like i have to let go of the self in one go
• intellectual teaching has been presented about emptiness so somehow to throw it all out not not possible not even a good
• um really take care to balance the emptiness practices with loving kindness and the well-being of samadhian really
• now sometimes john might say or i might say you might read it's like emptiness is not oneness that's wrong and a person
• so and again i've said this before but emptiness is not a disappointment it's not a teaching of disappointment
• so this seeing of emptiness this practicing of a shift in view we want to repeat and
• see over and over and over we need to see emptiness over and over and over and repeat that for it to make a difference
• we have a deep habit of not seeing emptiness that's basically what delusion is a deep habit of seeing inherent
• i can't remember which talk i gave it in but if the selflessness if the emptiness of phenomena is analyzed and if this
• when i was a very deep understanding of emptiness and then once it actually seen something very deep doubt goes confusion
• need to know we need to know the emptiness of things of all things and their lack of inherent existence all of
• experience he would go uh into can go into experiences of total emptiness nothing is occurring everything's just
• the very fact of perceptions changing points to their emptiness because again person going in and out and i'm just
• consciousness and that points to the emptiness there there's something about understanding
• of water mixing with water and sort of going so deep into emptiness that there's nothing left but emptiness
• going so deep into emptiness that there's nothing left but emptiness completely
• it's called a direct cognition of emptiness and technical language and it's very non-dual there isn't a mind
• it's very non-dual there isn't a mind and emptiness it's all just views and he says it's true that that's
• the experience does not mean that emptiness can't be reflected on conceptually
• heart comes out of it it comes out of understanding emptiness more and more and and this this uh the
• absolutely so sometimes when people first hear about emptiness the fear is well that means everything's meaningless

Love, Healing, and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 41 mentions

• between emptiness and these practices that we're doing these teachings of emptiness the
• emptiness and these practices that we're doing these teachings of emptiness the exploration of emptiness and love
• doing these teachings of emptiness the exploration of emptiness and love and compassion and healing
• that it would be quite surprising that all this emptiness business actually led in the direction of love it
• wrong end of stick of the stick with emptiness perhaps it's gone into a kind of nihilism something
• terms of love and compassion seeing the emptiness of the self recognizing that practicing with that
• and uh what the emptiness does the realization of emptiness to whatever degree is oh it
• what the emptiness does the realization of emptiness to whatever degree is oh it opens our capacity to love it actually
• says essence is emptiness everything else accidental
• everything else accidental emptiness brings peace to your loving everything else disease
• in this world of trickery emptiness is what your soul wants purifies our love purifies it of
• aids in that will be my understanding my practice with emptiness it's what opens that capacity much much wider
• off in the practice at all so the emptiness feeds the love and in a way when we are engaged in heart
• compassion etc how useful it can be to bring more emptiness in so we talk about compassion for a second
• it's for now or for later bringing the emptiness approaches into those practices so sometimes you're sitting
• parallel trips before it was an emptiness retreat starting last year for three years we had a um
• accessing love accessing a sense of emptiness can just open up the love and same thing with the chariot and the
• other other practice practices we do but emptiness can find a way of bringing it into practices as a kind of uh
• thing a big implication of emptiness is that the view we have of things is malleable
• compassion how was the letting go and the emptiness and kind of what we've been talking about that fading but
• so this business about karma and uh and dependent rising emptiness they're two sides of the same coin you
• they're two sides of the same coin you cannot an understanding of emptiness that doesn't implicitly understand karma
• all that is a misunderstanding of emptiness it's got something off there so that certainly emptiness does not
• emptiness it's got something off there so that certainly emptiness does not imply that nothing matters that ethics
• reasonings it's the supreme way of understanding emptiness because it's wrapped up with karma with
• i'm throwing out and and those as ways into emptiness i know that's because i used to avoid them like the plague uh
• in terms of dependent rising and fading and emptiness if i just hang out letting go of
• about dependent rising so this seeing this emptiness has actually something very profoundly to do
• the drama of me the emptiness view kind of lets go of that in terms of healing
• compassion to beings qualified by emptiness so what would it be to actually in the
• contemplate at the same time as the compassion contemplate the emptiness of that being and we told yesterday about
• but that's the way it goes emptiness touches the heart in that room if i'm angry at you and i can't find you
• um just a few things the relationship with emptiness and equanimity is probably more obvious to
• people probably more obvious that when there's a sense of emptiness it brings equanimity into our loving and kind of
• among other things that comes from emptiness emptiness fees compassion in the most beautiful and and complete way
• that then the more i can go into emptiness the wider and deeper i can go into
• the wider and deeper i can go into emptiness the more that is possible a real
• ultimate body cheater is the realization of emptiness and relative body chitter is the heart's
• body chitter the realization of emptiness to whatever degree is what allows the fullness of
• the relative body seeing the emptiness allows the fullness of our giving the fullness of our
• away and it's all part of that movement that feeds the emptiness the emptiness feeds that a snowball a beautiful

Love, Healing, and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 41 mentions

• between emptiness and these practices that we're doing these teachings of emptiness the
• emptiness and these practices that we're doing these teachings of emptiness the exploration of emptiness and love
• doing these teachings of emptiness the exploration of emptiness and love and compassion and healing
• that it would be quite surprising that all this emptiness business actually led in the direction of love it
• wrong end of stick of the stick with emptiness perhaps it's gone into a kind of nihilism something
• terms of love and compassion seeing the emptiness of the self recognizing that practicing with that
• and uh what the emptiness does the realization of emptiness to whatever degree is oh it
• what the emptiness does the realization of emptiness to whatever degree is oh it opens our capacity to love it actually
• says essence is emptiness everything else accidental
• everything else accidental emptiness brings peace to your loving everything else disease
• in this world of trickery emptiness is what your soul wants purifies our love purifies it of
• aids in that will be my understanding my practice with emptiness it's what opens that capacity much much wider
• off in the practice at all so the emptiness feeds the love and in a way when we are engaged in heart
• compassion etc how useful it can be to bring more emptiness in so we talk about compassion for a second
• it's for now or for later bringing the emptiness approaches into those practices so sometimes you're sitting
• parallel trips before it was an emptiness retreat starting last year for three years we had a um
• accessing love accessing a sense of emptiness can just open up the love and same thing with the chariot and the
• other other practice practices we do but emptiness can find a way of bringing it into practices as a kind of uh
• thing a big implication of emptiness is that the view we have of things is malleable
• compassion how was the letting go and the emptiness and kind of what we've been talking about that fading but
• so this business about karma and uh and dependent rising emptiness they're two sides of the same coin you
• they're two sides of the same coin you cannot an understanding of emptiness that doesn't implicitly understand karma
• all that is a misunderstanding of emptiness it's got something off there so that certainly emptiness does not
• emptiness it's got something off there so that certainly emptiness does not imply that nothing matters that ethics
• reasonings it's the supreme way of understanding emptiness because it's wrapped up with karma with
• i'm throwing out and and those as ways into emptiness i know that's because i used to avoid them like the plague uh
• in terms of dependent rising and fading and emptiness if i just hang out letting go of
• about dependent rising so this seeing this emptiness has actually something very profoundly to do
• the drama of me the emptiness view kind of lets go of that in terms of healing
• compassion to beings qualified by emptiness so what would it be to actually in the
• contemplate at the same time as the compassion contemplate the emptiness of that being and we told yesterday about
• but that's the way it goes emptiness touches the heart in that room if i'm angry at you and i can't find you
• um just a few things the relationship with emptiness and equanimity is probably more obvious to
• people probably more obvious that when there's a sense of emptiness it brings equanimity into our loving and kind of
• among other things that comes from emptiness emptiness fees compassion in the most beautiful and complete way
• that then the more i can go into emptiness the wider and deeper i can go into
• the wider and deeper i can go into emptiness the more that is possible a real
• ultimate body cheater is the realization of emptiness and relative body chitter is the heart's
• body chitter the realization of emptiness to whatever degree is what allows the fullness of
• the relative body seeing the emptiness allows the fullness of our giving the fullness of our
• away and it's all part of that movement that feeds the emptiness the emptiness feeds that a snowball a beautiful

Love, Karma, and Healing - (Meditation on Emptiness) 39 mentions

• and if they would hear a little bit uh you know about emptiness and the kind of things that we've been talking about it
• that these practices and and understanding emptiness and going deeper in this way leads to love that that
• you go deeper in the understanding of emptiness so just to put i mean one quote could have pulled many out cancer
• what i want to explore tonight and when he's saying the emptiness of throne he means both the emptiness of self the
• he's saying the emptiness of throne he means both the emptiness of self the lack of inherent existence of the self
• then understanding emptiness realizing emptiness questioning about emptiness is
• understanding emptiness realizing emptiness questioning about emptiness is probably going to have quite a big part
• and sometimes uh what we need is actually to drop the emptiness practice and to just in terms of this
• very possible to bring a lot of these emptiness approaches and lenses into the practice of meta or karuna love or
• this relationship of compassion and love and and the self and emptiness most most human beings
• the more sense we have more deeply we've seen the emptiness and the dependent arising of how they seem the more able
• again very deep here about karma about emptiness about penalizing we make our world to a large degree to a large
• so you begin to see how karma and dependent arising and emptiness are not different things they're actually one
• part of one thing called karma or call it karma call it emptiness called dependent rising make sense
• so it's it's not absolutely not the case that emptiness leads to this or an understanding of emptiness independent
• that emptiness leads to this or an understanding of emptiness independent rising leads to this kind of uh nothing
• opposite karma and emptiness karma independent rising like two sides of the same coin
• possibility sometimes when we either contemplate the emptiness of something or let go of clinging in
• of the clearest and deepest ways into understanding emptiness it's not for everyone but it can be and right there
• separate logical reasonings in there about emptiness in the book so it's dense with these really complicated
• to and addicted and attracted to it and the view of emptiness coming at it from the from the angle of empties and
• substantiality and the need to be with it and also its emptiness and and to have the freedom to do both and the
• um that talks about chariot and lots of really detailed stuff about emptiness he starts it
• non-dual understanding others understanding emptiness and the altruistic wish for awakening are the
• very intellectual brilliant tree ties on emptiness he says it's all about compassion a bow down and he goes on
• way which is in in what chandra crew says beings qualified by emptiness so yesterday we talked about the body
• being a separate being and you can go into it in a way bringing the emptiness contemplation you see there's nothing
• unfindability as something separate so the emptiness brings a kind of heart melting with it
• it should i hope it will be obvious how emptiness helps equanimity emptiness and equanimity it should be
• emptiness helps equanimity emptiness and equanimity it should be relatively it was how they would go hand
• this retreat you say something about emptiness or you say something in a way it's planting a seed perhaps or some of
• brings the deepest equanimity is emptiness is it's uh totally the most powerful thing for bringing equanimity
• compassion needs equanimity that comes from emptiness from seeing emptiness so love service generosity selflessness
• this uh realization understanding of emptiness to the degree that there's an understanding of emptiness all those
• emptiness to the degree that there's an understanding of emptiness all those become so much more possible so much
• ultimate body tutor is actually the mind uh seeing emptiness the mind seeing emptiness is ultimate body chitter
• uh seeing emptiness the mind seeing emptiness is ultimate body chitter relative body chitter is the aspiration
• of all beings but ultimate body chitter the seeing of emptiness is what allows the fullness of the relative body
• so again the emptiness it allows that the fullness of of dedication to love the

The Image of Ethics (Part 5) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 38 mentions

• there's much more emphasis on the emptiness of phenomena so including the emptiness of qualities of the chitta
• emptiness of phenomena so including the emptiness of qualities of the chitta including the emptiness of values and
• emptiness of qualities of the chitta including the emptiness of values and virtues and all that and talk about the
• two truths the ultimate truth of the emptiness of these things and the conventional truth of their
• disvalues etc so that the emptiness is is in a way not so much an issue
• so much an issue the ontological fact or the emptiness of virtues
• in the vadriana again there's a huge emphasis on the emptiness of these things there's also seems to be this uh
• immaturity bringing in bringing the teachings of emptiness to bear on the whole domain of ethics
• but anyway if we come back to uh emptiness so really important um to to realize knowing the emptiness
• emptiness so really important um to to realize knowing the emptiness of all things understanding in one's
• of all things understanding in one's heart the emptiness of all things does not will not lead to a nihilistic
• i've said this before emptiness means things are not real also means things are not not real
• and to me the indicator of insight into emptiness is care is even an increase in care care for
• these are the indicators to me of insight into emptiness if that's not there and someone's talking about
• there and someone's talking about emptiness either i'm not interested but if i'm in
• something's off it's not it's not the middle way of emptiness and i would also say in certainly in the
• and i would also say in certainly in the way at least i i would teach emptiness and then the practices that lead to it
• in the course of deepening one's insight into emptiness so we've talked about a lot of this
• before and sometimes people say when they hear about the emptiness thing oh well but then i won't i won't you know
• first talk of this series the talk on emptiness and ways of looking
• looking and the way i would teach emptiness with you know via ways of looking
• fabrication we're not starting with asking anyone to believe the emptiness of all things
• secondly we said um emptiness ways of looking we've developed lots of them are just then
• it might be in other ways of approaching emptiness through analyzes or through you know intellectual analysis practice
• tibet or through the idea of some way of practice where emptiness gets construed as a sort of big empty space with some
• the sort of one kind of interpretation of a terrorizing view of emptiness as the machine like process of aggregates
• from the beginning into into the emptiness exploration into the emptiness teachings and it's something we see and
• through as opposed to teaching emptiness in some way and then somehow you have to kind of
• in it because we're concerned that might what we've done with emptiness might imply that ethics is irrelevant or we
• we need to be careful uh you know again with the whole emptiness thing also not to be lazy and sloppy and there's many
• um the relationship of emptiness and ethics so ethics are empty
• societies what's interesting or if you like where the emptiness resides is in the question when is it deemed okay
• of these questions that's where the emptiness resides or similarly you know
• so what's the whole relationship between truth and emptiness you could say two plus two equals four
• two things here one is that when we when we use the teachings of emptiness it's really important whether it's in regard
• the notion that things are empty so we said yeah for liberation emptiness is enough for lots of other things it's
• okay similar thing when we have you know talked about emptiness as a providing a kind of minimum
• so at a minimum we say well the emptiness of all things takes away any really real

The Nature of Enchantment - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 38 mentions

• do you understand and to me what the what the deep teachings of emptiness are pointed to is not just the emptiness of
• what the deep teachings of emptiness are pointed to is not just the emptiness of the personal self but also the emptiness
• pointed to is not just the emptiness of the personal self but also the emptiness of the self
• level of the phenomenal self the emptiness of phenomenal self which is a deeper level yeah
• meditation on holes and parts and a way of going deep into emptiness or pretty deep into emptiness through a
• of going deep into emptiness or pretty deep into emptiness through a meditation on holes and parts and their
• relationship and their mutual dependency and mutual emptiness and so this could be referring to
• experience and or an understanding of emptiness at at a very deep but not yet total or ultimate level
• we should be understanding emptiness at a very deep level from it with it or on our way to
• understanding at a very deep level of emptiness it's not the final ultimate deepest level of emptiness but
• emptiness it's not the final ultimate deepest level of emptiness but it's still really important so again we
• these ones uh are they're empowering a view of emptiness with regard to phenomena the phenomena of of the world
• um so no thing or the emptiness of things um
• and deeper levels that's the usual way i would teach emptiness is you just kind of go one level consolidate that and
• imprisonment in that form sees the emptiness of walking so this applies to what we're talking about here
• forms so many structures so many imprisonment it's an emptiness in sight and it's related to this no thing no
• the insights that the buddha is talking about emptiness of phenomenal self etc it should lead to the insight that there
• conceptual framework which isn't relating these things to emptiness there is actually a stranglehold on the growth
• no thing it's as i said related to emptiness it does not mean impermanence okay emptiness is way beyond
• emptiness it does not mean impermanence okay emptiness is way beyond impermanence when we talk about the no
• that's impermanence it might be super fast impairments that's not emptiness so that would be an example if i took
• and not the apple nothing emptiness this is much much deeper much more powerful and liberating
• no thickness at the same time of emptiness matter at a whole other level
• essence or substance but that essence is a kind of essence of emptiness right you use essence almost in inverted commas
• phenomena is recognized as felt to be emptiness but we have to use that word essence a
• opens to so it's emptiness understood at a certain level there or a certain
• while and and also with the development of other emptiness practices again we can make cocktails so we can mix perhaps
• with for instance this sense of no thickness or emptiness um there is as we talked about the
• there's an experientially that that knowing of their emptiness is empowering an inside way of looking which is
• adriana ideally i would say it comes from this knowing of emptiness this understanding of emptiness and this
• from this knowing of emptiness this understanding of emptiness and this ability to actually uh
• about this malleability of perception with with the emptiness and the fading i come back to that the other again is
• practice of developing any deep practice janna's emptiness whatever it is then i really have to understand i'm saying
• okay last thing relating back to the emptiness was talked about the matter and the love and the desire and
• to the degree that one has realized the emptiness of things and remember that's a spectrum it's really a spectrum so
• we're talking about emptiness of things can be realized at a very everyday not big deal level and
• between but that realization of of the emptiness of things it um
• of no thickness when we talk about the emptiness of things the as i said the legitimacy and the possibility of the

The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The Self cannot be found anywhere) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 35 mentions

• retreat we've uh we've gone about this uh emptiness of the self from already from a couple of different directions at
• uh that's what analysis means in terms of meditation on emptiness but the key word again is meditation it
• doing the analysis and meditating on the emptiness of it is a bit like shooting an arrow when you don't know you've no
• shooting at the chances of success there are actually seeing the emptiness of this thing are not very strong so it's
• of talks uh it's not just that we want in meditating on emptiness to withdraw the sense uh withdraw contact with that
• disappear and in its place of acuity and emptiness takes its place so we're actually looking at the center
• there the vacuity needs to have the meaning of the emptiness of self okay so sometimes meditative spaces can just
• reasonings at first this sort of emptiness of the self feels like it's over there and and
• um the sense of separation the mind here and the emptiness there begins to fade and it's almost like they begin to melt
• into each other the mind and the emptiness begin to kind of melt into each other and fuse so to speak
• but still that meaning that pregnancy of meaning of emptiness is there it's not a blank it's not a unconsciousness it's
• you can't tell the mind separate from emptiness emptiness in the mind completely fuse that's that's the
• understanding the fullness of what emptiness means the fabrication of perception
• it's a journey of understanding this whole emptiness business and and so we swing uh by going too far into kind of
• yeah you could say that but careful that emptiness doesn't end up just sounding like oneness
• at best a stepping stone onto an understanding of emptiness so yes it's true i don't exist separately for the
• them or perceiving them so that's the fuller meaning of what emptiness means can i just is it okay if i finish but
• meaning keep remembering the meaning of emptiness uh it takes uh you know i can't rush
• actually looking for something called emptiness we're looking for the inherent existence of something and then
• step number one and then feeling the emptiness of it really letting that impact on the being
• other words the very meditation on that emptiness starts to bring the same kind of joy and uh that you would get in
• is if you really go deeply into the self up into the emptiness of the self really deeply it actually has pregnant in that
• pregnancy of meaning actually has the emptiness of all things all things and it's like to see the emptiness of one
• emptiness of all things all things and it's like to see the emptiness of one thing is to see the emptiness of all
• it's like to see the emptiness of one thing is to see the emptiness of all things deeply
• a logical process to have a gut feeling of its emptiness and there's a real feeling with that when you uh when you
• practice of their way of seeing the emptiness itself and outside of that i don't really know that many people do it
• really where you know you you are emptiness okay so i don't know enough about it but it's much more of a
• lack of inherent existence of the self or anything else we know the emptiness and it's that clarity and penetration of
• said it's a different there's many many approaches to emptiness this is one particular way of going about it
• sort of began amplifying all the teachings on emptiness are five four five hundred what he's actually saying
• is you can't trust your thinking mind um and that's what emptiness is saying that's actually not correct it's
• sometimes people present as the teachings of emptiness so you put it very well only it's exactly that it's
• the early talks is i divide the emptiness up into emptiness of the personal self
• with that influence personal stuff and then there's emptiness of phenomena phenomena meaning

The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) - (Practising the Jhānas) 34 mentions

• and the other half has to do with emptiness which goes even deeper than the unfabricated now unfabricated is
• the unfabricated now unfabricated is important for emptiness but emptiness in its full understanding goes even deeper
• relationship of both of those stages to emptiness and liberation and about the whole philosophy that's or
• find it in the seeing that three is a book about emptiness and talks about emptiness etc but there's also a lot of
• book about emptiness and talks about emptiness etc but there's also a lot of that material and a lot of different
• the terms dependent origination and emptiness maybe also codependent arising lack of inherent existence i anyway
• um but it's there to briefly for this so this isn't a talk about emptiness primarily it's talk primarily about the
• terms like dependent origination and emptiness get used in a lot of different ways in the dharma even in the insight
• um at one level at one level synonymous with emptiness or dependent arising in other words
• unfabricating emptiness dependent origination and the implications reality all of that
• was talking about this whole thing emptiness fabrication dependent arising is just a threat it's it's the same it's
• one doesn't understand dependent arising and emptiness and all this business
• and then this one understands that emptiness too is emptiness one hasn't fully yet understood dependent arising
• this talk i'm not going to go into the whole emptiness thing we don't have time um in a way it's only half of i said i'm
• to understand this business about fading and dependent arising and emptiness without practicing what i call inside
• really not the best way to understand fading and emptiness they're really not the best way to understand fading and
• the best way to understand fading and emptiness however
• however emptiness and fading is part of the best way to understand the
• said genres are not the best way to understand fading and emptiness but fading and emptiness are part of the
• understand fading and emptiness but fading and emptiness are part of the best way to understand the genres along
• so partly the reason i've been going on about emptiness and all that and ways of looking is because it forms the best and
• three characteristics and one of emptiness voidness so the three characteristics are dukka which is
• say to me oh well the only place the buddha really talks about emptiness in the pali canon is two sutters with
• the pali canon is two sutters with emptiness in the title but actually there's all kinds of teachings about
• there's all kinds of teachings about emptiness of phenomenal self not just this anata not me not mine emptiness of
• emptiness of phenomenal self not just this anata not me not mine emptiness of the personal cell there's all kinds of
• the personal cell there's all kinds of teachings that's emptiness of phenomenal stuff in the pali canon and different
• so here's one they're they're a void they're an emptiness so there's four ways of looking there
• that you know what there's many ways of understanding uh emptiness as we said in response to the note on the question on
• understand its its voidness its emptiness so in other words there's many possible subtexts if i'm using that way
• so there are other approaches to emptiness that are possible and again written about them and seeing the freeze
• for something to have inherent existence it's just another way into emptiness okay
• go further in my understanding of emptiness and dependent arising and i realized through that that
• there's holiness everywhere there's this beauty of emptiness everywhere without any duality

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• some people actually refer to the coalescence of emptiness and appearance and that the coalescence of emptiness
• coalescence of emptiness and appearance and that the coalescence of emptiness and appearances and that actually has a
• um appearances are empty you can't get an emptiness that's separate from appearance and that's what it's
• re-define if you like or expand on on the very word emptiness so that the word emptiness means different things in
• the very word emptiness so that the word emptiness means different things in different buddhist traditions and you
• range of what it what it's taken to mean the word emptiness so mostly i use it as the absence of
• how i use it but there are traditions um where emptiness and this chinyana this is is equivalent this buddhism this
• so that's actually the meaning of emptiness more than just absence of inherent existence it includes the
• which is very famous sutra where it actually says form is emptiness emptiness is form
• actually says form is emptiness emptiness is form um i used to think that was just bad
• empty um rather than form is emptiness but um and then it continues through all the
• um and then it continues through all the aggregates vadana is emptiness emptiness is vadana perception perception is
• is vadana perception perception is emptiness emptiness is perception sankara mental formations is emptiness
• emptiness emptiness is perception sankara mental formations is emptiness uh emptiness is mental formations
• sankara mental formations is emptiness uh emptiness is mental formations consciousness consciousness is is
• consciousness consciousness is is emptiness emptiness is consciousness um but from
• actually uh what the the meaning of the word emptiness and some of those some of those project paramita sutras is is
• past you know everyone might use the word emptiness it's really uh really quite a range of differences in what
• really understand what a person means by emptiness etc or buddha nature are these words
• i'm missing a whole level of the emptiness of that very sense perception itself of the sense pleasure of the
• teachings i i would say um that emptiness is implicit there and uh or in the soulmaking knowing image
• opening to the penetration of the realization of deep emptiness and in in their life and they bring their energy
• libido in the direction of the unfabricated or deep emptiness and if you like just
• actually relatively deep penetration into emptiness and despite a certain amount of practice without a certain
• the cream why is it not working i'm doing my emptiness practice i'm really creative with that i'm doing a little
• deflationary um explanation or take on emptiness for example everything's empty nothing's
• and all that it's a deflationary emptiness um versus uh which is more my meaning
• leanings here um versus the realization of emptiness being
• possibilities and i would say so emptiness allows a flat land one dimensional view certainly is a have
• much more mystical conceptions and views whereas a deflationary emptiness tends to deflationary take on emptiness tends
• whereas a deflationary emptiness tends to deflationary take on emptiness tends to just kind of by default encourage
• deflationary version of the dharma or emptiness or deflationary psychology or whatever it is
• of the thorough and deep emptiness of all things or awakening involves an opening
• the basis of groundlessness because of the teachings of emptiness and because of seeing image as image and it's that