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Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception - (Meditation on Emptiness) 27 mentions

• uh in a way discover emptiness the seeing events is the palpable sense of
• events is the palpable sense of emptiness in a way that brings freedom that brings quite you know deeper and
• on by by the deluded mind and and drawn out and when we don't see the emptiness then we crave one and not the other and
• what we're going to get into is the emptiness of things and perceptions and how the mind the dilute mind builds
• something else we haven't seen the emptiness of show
• a step further and remember i said dividing it into the emptiness of cells and the emptiness of phenomenon there's
• dividing it into the emptiness of cells and the emptiness of phenomenon there's a reason i do it in that order because
• very deep meditation actually contemplating the emptiness of it and then everything
• is the inside the insight into dependent rising which means emptiness of things and actually seeing that over and over
• or maybe just a sense of stillness almost as it's just emptiness or it's just peace or whatever
• we actually understand through seeing this because it implies the emptiness of things we actually understand what we're
• or yes yeah and actually uh it has no bearing on dependent rising or emptiness or anything at all yeah so they their
• cease that's the understanding of dependent arising of emptiness and that's the understanding we're free
• i understand exactly emptiness and dependent rising two sides the same coin two different
• two empty things air leaning on air emptiness leaning on emptiness mutual dependent arising someone uh
• empty but if i see the emptiness of suffering rather than not caring
• the kind of magic of all this the more i see the emptiness of suffering the more compassion comes into
• these ways yeah they're all different ways of kind of seeing the emptiness yeah yeah yeah and and the feeling too
• in heaven it's there this emptiness same in suffering as it is in bliss as it is in
• what we're talking about tonight i see the emptiness of the thing the emptiness of the situation
• right at the beginning self not self thing and emptiness they're just ways of looking and actually in time meditator
• over or whatever way i see the emptiness of things and eventually i say over and
• and going straight to the knowing of the emptiness of it and look at it through the lens of knowing its emptiness and
• emptiness of it and look at it through the lens of knowing its emptiness and rather than not me not mine or let me
• to me the whole of the buddhist teaching is not just talking about the emptiness of the self so you say i'm like this and
• helpful way of going about investigating emptiness is actually going via your suffering
• um i i would really really recommend not getting with this whole emptiness thing it's very easy to go into a well this is

The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 1) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 26 mentions

• well certainly um the emptiness teachings over the years but then also woven in to the
• parallels with the way we would teach emptiness and ways of looking and the radical dependence on ways of looking
• can you recognize even the language that he uses is very similar to the emptiness language
• um there's some parallels with what we might call emptiness but it's really something different i may hopefully come
• other in talks you know sometimes teaching about emptiness and and then someone will say i really like that
• neurons and matter are more fundamental even than emptiness or then fabrication etc they are what fabricate they are
• in and hears about teachings of emptiness one reads them about fabrication etc and then smuggles back
• or from a deconstruction based on emptiness etc and matter itself is empty time is empty space is empty
• um so causality depends on on time um in in the teachings of emptiness that i would um
• three considerations that applies also to the view of radical emptiness it applies if we are kind of in favor of or
• particular let's say in the area when teaching emptiness um
• people are talking with them about emptiness and about if they're on this journey of deepening understanding
• journey of deepening understanding exploration of emptiness what is it that actually
• it gives a person a deep conviction in emptiness and what's interesting to me is that it
• what makes this person convinced deeply let's say about emptiness is very different than what makes this person
• different than what makes this person deeply convinced about emptiness and yet they both have a deep conviction
• passionate and powerfully effective and liberating conviction in emptiness um
• it might be for some people if we just talk about emptiness for a second that um they are in fact taking the teachings
• um they are in fact taking the teachings of emptiness and the conclusions of emptiness and the ontology of emptiness
• of emptiness and the conclusions of emptiness and the ontology of emptiness um the taking on board out of trust for
• the position of what we might call deep emptiness that there really is no ultimate reality that there is not
• um uh exploration deep exploration thorough exploration into emptiness that i would um the way at least i would
• so there's something kind of very simple sounding that the emptiness teachings and and it's possible to kind of
• unproven assumptions it applies also to the epistemology of emptiness and that was how do i know emptiness is true how
• the epistemology of emptiness and that was how do i know emptiness is true how do i trust that that insight that
• insight i trust that knowledge i trust that whatever it is about emptiness that also has to rest on unproven assumptions

Beauty and the Buddha - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 26 mentions

• of things depending dependent on other things so there's a kind of emptiness there but implicit in the understanding
• there but implicit in the understanding of emptiness is that it's tragic that it's really means impermanent and just
• views and conceptions interpretations of emptiness and this is part of what's at the root of the difference then in
• so for my friend the um the teachings of emptiness and the fact if you like of emptiness are
• um the teachings of emptiness and the fact if you like of emptiness are actually tied in to a fantasy of tragedy
• um uh they're also they his understanding of emptiness implies because there is dukkah because things
• um quite the opposite of most of the buddhist tradition where emptiness um
• implies freedom knowing emptiness things open until the emptiness of things brings freedom and
• knowing emptiness things open until the emptiness of things brings freedom and not not tragedy not duka quite the
• always teach it um emptiness means the emptiness of something means it's not
• foreign so rather than emptiness or rather and rather than emptiness being just kind of
• so rather than emptiness or rather and rather than emptiness being just kind of tied in with impermanence and kind of
• equally tragic and if you like um the emptiness of things or the realization of the deep emptiness of
• um the emptiness of things or the realization of the deep emptiness of things
• and a gardener who is if you like the um apparently paragon teacher of emptiness in the buddhist tradition
• impairments and limited exploration of emptiness well it limits so how might we
• that are legitimized because of the emptiness of things to allow this diversity and flexibility plasticity of
• or it can come through or be supported through emptiness practices ways of looking for instance
• empty and it knows that they are empty so it's a knowing of emptiness and the totality of both
• cosmic inter-subjective field that knows the emptiness of things is empty itself and includes both awareness and world
• supports it also can be supported many people through emptiness practices really deepening for some people they
• so we see with a the way i would teach emptiness and that whole line of exploration we begin to realize through
• so through the view of um emptiness if we go through the practices of emptiness for some people
• um emptiness if we go through the practices of emptiness for some people it's what it's what opens up and the
• entertain because we've seen the emptiness of these things and because of that further soulmaking and as i said
• neither real nor unreal the middle way that is a basis a result of emptiness practice and if you like a basis but

Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2- The Ending of the World -... 26 mentions

• touch on is the relationship of mindfulness and emptiness okay and this i think is very important
• basic most basic entry point into emptiness certainly for people with insight
• mindfulness alone is only capable of seeing a certain extent of emptiness but for a lot of people this will be a lot
• demolishing the house it's not the whole story of emptiness but the question is like what is really
• here what is really here in a way that's the question of emptiness what is really here
• um exposes exposes some degree of emptiness one day
• giving the thing itself in inherent existence not seeing its emptiness so with all that the same question that
• it with in that moment yeah that's this is what emptiness means this is what lack of inherent existence
• means this is what emptiness means um
• same thing here but for things okay so we're talking about the emptiness of things now if i completely and utterly
• their understanding we understand the emptiness of the mountain the tree etc then you come out of meditation and
• very different to have that with that sense of the emptiness so
• and walking around in the world with wisdom about emptiness walking around in world wisdom at emptiness means knowing
• wisdom about emptiness walking around in world wisdom at emptiness means knowing that things are appearing
• talked about when you really develop that uh avoidness appears the emptiness of the self or the emptiness of the
• that uh avoidness appears the emptiness of the self or the emptiness of the chariot appears same thing because at
• than that it's it's the insight it's the insight about the emptiness and the dependent arising
• space or a stillness or whatever keep going it just feels like an emptiness keep going
• you know with any any degree of of meditation or emptiness any degree at all and we've talked a lot about the
• jump from a really solid world into some complete emptiness it's a gradual movement that comes through familiarity
• things i haven't quite seen the emptiness of things and we're still kind of believing as in impermanence or
• heaven why because it's the emptiness of all this it's the emptiness so whether it's
• because it's the emptiness of all this it's the emptiness so whether it's suffering or whether it's bliss
• person if i look at the thing and i concentrate on the emptiness of the thing
• really understanding experientially meditatively uh what emptiness is and implications and the fullness of what it
• and it works and the understanding of emptiness is is kind of etched and burned deeper and deeper into the heart

The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening... 26 mentions

• through the art of meditation and meditation on emptiness etc um to attenuate the clinging in the
• buddha's teaching of dependent origination emptiness of the world of perception fabrication dependent rising
• uh and out of that the understanding the emptiness the second sentence there
• time thoroughly with that understanding the emptiness of self the emptiness of the deity and the emptiness of the
• the emptiness of self the emptiness of the deity and the emptiness of the perception of the world of any world
• um but now we can say something like what i said before knowing the emptiness and eternality of the imaginal or
• and eternality of the imaginal or knowing the emptiness and the timelessness of the imaginal the world
• infinitely so knowing the emptiness and eternality of the imaginal the world is
• re-enchance divinizes the world knowing seeing sensing emptiness and the eternality that allows more eros and i
• origination the skill and practice and the art of practice there with emptiness etc there's one direction another
• um again tantric practice and emptiness practice that
• practice learn to sort of engage that incorporate that knowing of emptiness so that things fade a little bit
• um but you're not leaning all the way on that insight into emptiness so you're kind of modulating like like
• them in different ways as divine you're lightly knowing the emptiness you're keeping that there in the perceptions
• perception as we uh buddha's perception who is able to know emptiness completely and still perceive a world of
• wisdom and knowing aspect the wisdom that knows emptiness and the and the awareness that perceives and the mandala
• looking that's what i end up with if i if i really understand emptiness if my pressure is really developed that there
• wisdom knowings put it that way that the knowings that are that no emptiness and thus have
• of a buddha's nurses that can see emptiness and has some aspect that's completely transcendent and transcendent
• the only kind of being that can um know fully the emptiness with the wisdom there
• um in other words to realize um the emptiness of self the emptiness of matter and form and to become if you
• um there's first the dissolution into emptiness the knowing of emptiness and then the emergence from the emptiness
• emptiness the knowing of emptiness and then the emergence from the emptiness and the
• and then at the end dissolving it all back into emptiness thoroughly um so there's the drawing down or even
• essence but that's enabled and shot through with the knowing of emptiness yes
• enabled by or shot through by the of knowing of the emptiness and the fading of things is also

Doubt and Discernment (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 26 mentions

• um insights into emptiness non-spector of fabrication dwelling in
• want to talk about more radical practice with its emptiness or this or or that at some edge who dares wins means there's a
• seeing image as image seeing the emptiness of everything so self other world eros itself body
• path that actually really has an understanding of emptiness as a basis for the whole path
• as a basis for the whole path understanding the emptiness of everything without without exception
• that what happens when that is placed as a basis of the path not just emptiness as sort of something we add on as an
• advanced thing or something that's an option or and not an emptiness and understanding of evidence that leaves
• the things as they are or whatever it is so a basis in emptiness lies
• at at the fundament of all this there's a basis of emptiness not a truth claim not some or other truth claims quite a
• of doubt can can uh come up with that it's an understanding of emptiness really opens a tremendous amount of
• uh avenues for us and so doubt because when we really understand the emptiness of all this the doubt can really subside
• these kind of practices rather in parallel through emptiness meditation or just through the imaginal itself
• um so in terms of emptiness uh understanding oftentimes there's there's
• someone has maybe they haven't done the whole emptiness thing and and really seen the emptiness of everything that's
• whole emptiness thing and and really seen the emptiness of everything that's actually pretty rare
• um but they've done enough to see you know some degree of the emptiness of self
• um parallel insight because they see some degree of the emptiness of self and yet they don't dismiss the self they
• that maybe draw on some level of the insight into emptiness that you already have integrated already
• have integrated already and you see emptiness does not mean um i need to completely reject something
• respect it it's the freedom to to move uh when we see the emptiness of something it opens up a freedom of
• this is also that someone can have very little understanding of emptiness uh from their previous practice and there's
• but that sense even without um perhaps in emptiness sometimes because you can actually get that sense
• even if i don't know anything about emptiness it's got it's got a different um quality to it the quality of theater
• calling clinging in its relationship to that deep investigation into emptiness and that whole un
• itself no there isn't because of emptiness and depend origination but for the sake of what we want to just draw
• the dharma and the teaching of the penalization emptiness and what that can open for us

Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing - (Meditation on Emptiness) 25 mentions

• but the real question for us on this retreat and talking about emptiness etc is is it enough
• we have a problem though with in terms of emptiness and and liberation etc because the problem is that we accept
• time went on in the indian tradition with as the sort of mahayana emptiness teachings really began to grow the word
• teachings really began to grow the word suchness became a synonym with emptiness so just suchness meant emptiness yeah
• suchness became a synonym with emptiness so just suchness meant emptiness yeah such as meant emptiness but i remember
• so just suchness meant emptiness yeah such as meant emptiness but i remember reading and some of you might have read
• to do but it's easy to kind of so emptiness is not just impermanence it's not just there's more to it than
• so you know a person one hears a quiet look i say emptiness just means oneness it means everything's one
• at a certain age actually have a sense of the emptiness of things and a sense of the appearance of things actually not
• so what all this is getting at in terms of teachings of emptiness and and all of it and this retreat in particular is
• and what we need to do as practitioners is see the emptiness of that over and over and over and over and repeat it
• actually not so powerful it's uh we see emptiness and it's almost like it
• is relevant to what i'm talking about now it said if the emptiness of phenomena is analyzed
• and that's what you have to do but it says if the emptiness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is
• same basically you have to see emptiness for liberation you have to understand the emptiness of
• you have to see emptiness for liberation you have to understand the emptiness of all things uh
• now in sanskrit this wisdom seeing into emptiness and one understands that and you know people can have all these
• using it in this retreat specific meaning wisdom understanding emptiness specifically
• i said this in the initial talk on emptiness i'm a little aware of time actually and
• and talking about um talking about emptiness actually and either i wasn't clear enough or uh
• there's something implied about emptiness here and is also an understanding again how we fabricate
• when the miners said last night go so deep that it's mixed with emptiness like water and water you can't actually
• the buddha said that but that doesn't mean that emptiness can't be reflected upon we can't talk
• to to really deep understanding of emptiness so it turns out that these elements of
• path and it uh the dependent rising and emptiness etc um there's something in where that's

Logoi and Leanings - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 25 mentions

• it needs the balance of samadhi of emptiness of matter of emotional work working with the energy body
• should i try and uh drop it or see the emptiness of it or or whatever um i don't know that there's necessarily
• as the kind of a bit of papancha or i'll just see the emptiness of it and let it go
• know more emotional practice or should i do an emptiness practice um
• well actually in metta practice in emptiness practices and in imaginal practices
• that's a common occurrence when we're doing emptiness practice that will be a very regular occurrence or when we're
• doing metta practice well with each of those three practices meta emptiness and imagine the instructions would be
• soulmaking of course or if i'm staring in emptiness practice it's steering for the sake of
• soulmaking practice and also we could say emptiness practice as well to realize their full potential
• um so that's part of as i said well also with emptiness practices because we feel in the body the release
• because we feel in the body the release that a certain emptiness way of looking or inside way of looking brings and that
• allowing or supporting the soulmaking emptiness practices to to realize their full potential
• um soulmaking and imaginal practice um or if we're talking about emptiness practices
• in either one of those practices either imaginal practice or emptiness practice and the experience itself if we can even
• may be amazing in either of those two practices or making more emptiness um
• imaginal or soulmaking or delivering of liberating insight into emptiness because
• that and similarly with with the emptiness something might um fade through some practice but if i'm
• um is crucial same with as i said earlier same with emptiness practice or whatever the conceptual framework makes
• conceptual framework that understands emptiness independent arising sometimes fortuitously they do there's
• um the perception and sensing the soul there is is kind of similar to emptiness practice perception
• um not being separate so some of you who've done some emptiness practice know that as a kind of um staging post or
• in that sub idea the diff from the difference from the emptiness idea is um it's not universal again the
• ways of looking then the ideation this goes for emptiness practice as well the ideation needs to be very light
• this idea of subtext is also common in emptiness practice so i think i might have mentioned in this in this series
• that would be one possible subtext for the emptiness way of looking just a perception or it could be it's just a

Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self - (Meditation on Emptiness) 25 mentions

• projects and they're the sort of first tax on emptiness what you find is there is no this there is no that there is no
• that sense of the inherent existence isn't clear he said emptiness meditation is a bit like firing an arrow at a
• it's not gonna do the trick in terms of emptiness and understanding it is so all that sounds quite intellectual the
• said yes the levels of understanding of emptiness and some of some what they call lower tenant systems actually
• fade and get replaced with a sense of vacuity emptiness non-thing okay there's a meditation
• then does is steadily focuses on that emptiness that that kind of acuity that appears and kind of concentrates on that
• either so it's very it has it's pregnant that sense of emptiness with a very specific meaning which is i can't find
• over here and the sort of vacuity or emptiness being over there begins to kind of begin to kind of melt into each
• is this sense of what it means what that emptiness means um
• borrow a phrase from the tibetans the mind and the emptiness mix like water in water there's a total kind of uh fusion
• of the mind and dissolving of the mind and emptiness of subject and object and that's called a direct cognition of
• and that's called a direct cognition of of emptiness let's just briefly run it running
• we're gonna go back into this uh later in retreat the emptiness of time and emptiness of the present moment later in
• in retreat the emptiness of time and emptiness of the present moment later in the tree but just this notion of the
• hinge pins for that understanding of emptiness the present moment is inseparable from the object of
• on that um void that voidness that emptiness that comes up there
• coming back with a sense of kind of sense of its emptiness it's qualified by emptiness so it appears again but you
• sense of its emptiness it's qualified by emptiness so it appears again but you feel that it's empty
• um at times the sense of emptiness gets lost or the sense of lack of inherent
• that where searching for emptiness you're not looking for this experience of emptiness
• searching for emptiness you're not looking for this experience of emptiness that's actually important or you're not
• that's actually important or you're not looking for something called emptiness what you're actually looking for is the
• sense of not being able to find it you feel the sort of emptiness it has a an impression on the heart
• um the reasoning brings this sense of emptiness and the mind kind of really settles with that
• in a matter of seconds sometimes you can just file right down to that emptiness and then stay with that empties and then

Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 24 mentions

• and perception comes out of and is implied in emptiness practices i know i keep referring to emptiness on
• implied in emptiness practices i know i keep referring to emptiness on this retreat but i'm actually we don't
• have time to talk too much about emptiness so let's just say this if you're
• so let's just say this if you're familiar with emptiness practices different emptiness practices
• familiar with emptiness practices different emptiness practices um then you will recognize that both
• that is those factors those aspects are always there in emptiness practices and there's a like so many things
• so there's a there's a range of degrees of of of certainly of depth of emptiness practice and somatics are a bit of how
• understand and develop skill with emptiness practices um all the way down to really knowing
• um everything if you like is liquid this these emptiness practices themselves again
• is rendered and substantial that view of emptiness of liquidity is really there and again it's a very very fertile
• and with it with a lot of practice with with emptiness practices and there can be a very fluid movement and with the
• somalia as well fluid movement between either the samadhi or the emptiness practices and the imaginal practices
• and particularly with with a lot of practice with the emptiness practices um sometimes we can sort of
• imaginal realm um just by invoking uh some emptiness products engaging some emptiness
• um just by invoking uh some emptiness products engaging some emptiness practice or invoking the felt uh insight
• there the memory of the insight or the memory of that depth of emptiness to let go in that moment of the perception of
• so with a lot of practice but when just emptiness practices one just leans into letting go of the perception of
• and that comes as a fruit of of uh in most cases quite a lot of emptiness practice and then as i said one can play
• so that's a second there's a samadhi and then the emptiness practices um the third possibility for uh
• whole range of that and and states of come through emptiness practices and states of emptiness if we can use that
• come through emptiness practices and states of emptiness if we can use that phrase on one side being quite fertile
• and sometimes doesn't have to be a lot of samadhi or really deep emptiness practices whatever
• lovely deep states of samadi or emptiness or meta going deep and on one hand and on the other hand the more
• samadhi in in both those ways and that we talked about the emptiness practices if you're familiar with them and thirdly