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Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 20 mentions

• somali in its place on this retreat and uh its place in in practice of emptiness that we're doing
• offering a lot in terms of insight and emptiness practices a lot of possibilities
• parallel avenues in the meditation one is the emptiness and the insight practice and the other is samadhi
• time and divide it in two harper emptiness practice after samadhi practice
• um and we actually went the deeper we go into emptiness the more subtlety we need to be able to see so we talk about the
• as i saying last night sometimes sometimes with emptiness and person meditating on emptiness or just hearing
• sometimes with emptiness and person meditating on emptiness or just hearing teachings on emptiness there can be a
• meditating on emptiness or just hearing teachings on emptiness there can be a little bit of fear at times or a little
• it's not just our culture but for many people just the word emptiness seems to suggest a kind of nihilism now it's
• as the retreat goes on we're offering many insight practice and emptiness practices and we can also use those to
• would be lovely balance to do matter and emptiness if if you're not keen on breath as a focused practice
• happen when one begins using the emptiness and the insight practices is because they are letting go practices
• possible is um using the emptiness approaches to as it kind of lends us i'll explain much
• practicing with a certain insight practice a certain emptiness practice and actually one feels the samadhi
• needs is a bit of insight a bit of cutting through using the emptiness practices and when there's an insight
• deeper relationship between samadhi and emptiness again which is not at all obvious and very very rarely talked
• oftentimes it's actually not it's actually not and we talk about emptiness actually the thing is empathy is empty
• that this is everything everything to do with a deep understanding of emptiness so again one of the one of the real
• somebody is not directly contemplating emptiness there's there's a parallel movement here which if we understand
• totally integral and important to understanding emptiness and even if we don't understand it we're getting used

Love and the Emptiness of Things - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 20 mentions

• what i want to talk about tonight is love and the emptiness of things the emptiness of things
• love and the emptiness of things the emptiness of things but first in a way i want to review some
• and for those who have seen say deeply into emptiness i'd say i've seen unconditional exercise see deeply into
• unconditional exercise see deeply into emptiness love is not based on anything so at the beginning of the spiritual
• and for those who have seen deeply into emptiness love is not based on anything now we could certainly hear something
• there's the emptiness of how things are there's the emptiness of what is
• the emptiness of how things are there's the emptiness of what is so-called
• with so in that this teaching of emptiness is called the middle way it's a middle
• experience is actually to begin to see into emptiness to begin to see into emptiness
• into emptiness to begin to see into emptiness to begin to see into relationship is to
• to begin to see into relationship is to begin to see into emptiness and to begin to seem to emptiness is to
• begin to see into emptiness and to begin to seem to emptiness is to begin to see into freedom it's that's
• coming when when one goes deep into emptiness or there's that kind of opening what can begin sometimes to get
• means to see things like impermanence and this very emptiness to see that more clearly that's what it means
• now it can be that hearing about emptiness when we first hear about it sounds very nihilistic very destructive
• practice over and contemplation of emptiness is not leading to love and compassion it's not opening love and
• and how we're practicing and how we're viewing emptiness so by its nature it should lead to more of a sense of
• probably something in it that doesn't cover quite emptiness has a lot of aspects to what it means and a lot of
• yes it rarifies that and when and then people substitute the word emptiness for that empty space and it's a beautiful
• state but when the buddha talks about emptiness and talks about awakening he's talking

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 20 mentions

• practice through deep insight into emptiness the the fabric the extent of fabrication all perception is fabricated
• fabrication of perception and then the emptiness of fabrication too
• not fabricated not enough exploration of um of emptiness there or one might say well these images
• commonly very deep experiences of emptiness or the unfabricated this darkness that reigns forever that's
• which exposes the fabricated nature of all perception emptiness of all perception and going deeper into that
• possibilities of magical practice so most emptiness practices are practices of unfabricating said this
• um learning to fabricate lesson and in doing so in engaging emptiness practices the sense of the solidity of fixedness
• so someone might not have done any emptiness practice or any of those other other dharma practices actually just
• more malleable and so actually gives rise to an understanding of emptiness and an experience of emptiness of this
• rise to an understanding of emptiness and an experience of emptiness of this um fabricated nature of perception
• through imaginal practice and then both through deep emptiness practice or through metta practice or
• organically by itself as one practice imaginal practice or emptiness practice deeper and deeper
• mutually contingent so imaginal practice and emptiness practice and summator and meta they all
• practice and summator and meta they all feed each other emptiness practices practices will lead to samata to meta
• will bring meta effortlessly and samadhi and will help us see emptiness and open the imaginal for us all of it meta
• the meta to compassion practice to understand the deep emptiness of perception the fabricated nature of
• obviously samadhi give rise to understand your emptiness um the world for people who do long
• realm of teachings based on the understanding of emptiness absolutely having their uh having as as a basis the
• having their uh having as as a basis the understanding of emptiness um then based on their understanding of
• um then based on their understanding of the emptiness of all things uh

Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 20 mentions

• uh somalia and its relevance to our practice of emptiness here so many of you will have heard this word
• weeks certainly the insight into specifically emptiness will be developing but also the samadhi and the
• that both your insight practice their emptiness practice and and very much also the the
• so if you're doing metta practice you can just do metta practice and the emptiness practice that's totally fine so really
• or you could do samadhi and the emptiness and i would still have said last night throw a little bit of loving
• subtle things that shape our experience so this is what emptiness is about what is building and shaping my sense of the
• and that helps as i was saying yesterday sometimes practicing with emptiness is a little bit scary things are shaken the
• fearing them occasionally too a person with emptiness gets knocking
• of balance in our understanding of emptiness and we say it veers to the extreme of nihilism it's all empty it
• nihilism that come out this the emptiness practice is a little bit off balance at that time one of the
• later i mean in a couple of days really when we get into the emptiness practices per se
• you can actually learn to use the emptiness practices and the insight practices as ways of letting go of
• insight practice actually ways of using the emptiness and insight practices to unblock those subtle energy energy
• later as i said let's keep saying we will talk about using the emptiness practices as kind of lenses but for
• can come out of that so using emptiness praxis particularly to work with what's difficult
• sometimes funnily enough a person is reflecting on emptiness and analyzing emptiness and contemplating emptiness
• reflecting on emptiness and analyzing emptiness and contemplating emptiness and feels like there's some insight
• so whether that letting go happens through inside practice or emptiness practice or this or that letting go of
• make sense for some of you right now person let's go using the emptiness practice or insight practice and a space
• we're not doing any insight yet i'll talk about emptiness tonight but um in the practice today and tomorrow uh

Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned - (Meditation on Emptiness) 19 mentions

• i think right to the beginning so emptiness teachings of emptiness practices on empires are tools tools
• to love and there are many emptiness tools as we've been going through but there are
• language that the the view the looking of not self no self emptiness and sometimes we take the view of self and
• this evening that the emptiness approach is the best for what you're going through
• it may be or it may not be what an emptiness approach it might be that actually right now for what you are
• now of course the talks on this retreat are mostly about emptiness because it feels like there's a lot to say about it
• about a whole lot of other stuff too but that emptiness is part of the path it's just that on this retreat we're
• not want to hear anything more about me knowing one more word about emptiness that's up to my ears i don't want to
• words i might give a talk on you i'm fabricated or emptiness or something but it's important that practice feel
• others will say the teachings of emptiness are actually contradictory to the teachings of an unconditioned or or
• that tripod is beginning to see the mutual dependency the mutual emptiness ones uh taking away the support for that
• and you're all having experience an emptiness to some degree or another all of you and if it goes into the fading
• same thing as saying there's no clinging or we've seen the emptiness of it there's no reason to be occupied but
• hesitancy there sometimes people call that emptiness with a capital e but
• um remember go mat i think to the very first talk emptiness strictly speaking is an adjective and so emptiness is not
• first talk emptiness strictly speaking is an adjective and so emptiness is not the thing we arrive at it's a something
• all is empty uh the the nature of all things is emptiness is empty there's a beautiful question i'm not
• is in the service of that as any level of emptiness we see we can absorb the understanding of that and
• more we uh more insight we have more insight into emptiness we have and we travel that path basically the more able

The Subtlety of Dependent Origination - (Meditation on Emptiness) 19 mentions

• and that fearlessness rests on our seeing emptiness or rather our seeing of emptiness is something that profoundly
• seeing emptiness or rather our seeing of emptiness is something that profoundly uh
• it's so interesting like many many uh areas of emptiness practice and many ways you can approach seeing its
• ways you can approach seeing its emptiness so people will find different ways that are more convincing and
• nagarjuna was getting at in all his um reasonings on emptiness it's not pointing language is the problem for
• find your building what knowing and known and and emptiness of time emptiness at this moment
• known and and emptiness of time emptiness at this moment um there's another reasoning i i just
• which is the sort of seminal text on emptiness uh that was a few hundred years after the buddha's death he says
• in time being empty and then i just remind myself of the emptiness of time and pulling at the other tripod
• transcendently deep in terms of one's understanding of emptiness but conceiving means something slightly
• mutuality uh the mutual dependency and the implicit mutual emptiness of consciousness
• implication and the sense of leaning on emptiness leaning on a vacuum things are leaning
• these all these factors i will find a mutual dependency in mutual emptiness there's nothing in there that's not
• level so this emptiness of time for meditator just throwing this out
• um so what's important is seeing the emptiness of things so a person can have you know to see this in in any way in
• the cessation it's more like what does the fading mean about the emptiness and independent arising that's the thing
• that is the dependent arising mutual emptiness of things that's what we need to know
• there that's incredibly beautiful and it's pointing to the total emptiness of everything everything there's nothing
• everything everything there's nothing outside that emptiness nothing that stands outside what is empty what is

The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 2) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 19 mentions

• realization the deep realization of radical emptiness the thorough and comprehensive emptiness
• radical emptiness the thorough and comprehensive emptiness of all phenomena that all things at all
• blind spots but assumptions even that insight into emptiness rests on um certain unproven assumptions it has
• to develop that understanding of emptiness and hold that stance of the the the the the middle way of the buddha
• so sometimes when i teach about deep emptiness and the whole notion of ways of looking and there are just ways of
• ways of looking if we just talk about emptiness right now um one actually realizes that the mind
• in some very deep mysterious way so that that position of deep emptiness is also entails of sacredness implies
• radical middle way of of dharma teachings on emptiness and the imaginable way
• the the the the the the penetrating into deep emptiness and the sophistication of subtlety and
• determining what happens and the apparent emptiness of things that all that could be made sense of and
• etc but in itself it is a reality so there's a kind of emptiness there but at another level it's not really empty
• also like the deep emptiness like the imagine them in a way they are they are
• circles is that it's a kind of knowing that's able to fully see the emptiness of all things at the same time as it
• that which is beyond the concept the thorough emptiness and the forms the divine forms and the temporal
• uh a manifestation of the whole emptiness ways of looking paradigm where
• of the absolutes and the one of the emptiness ways of looking there's ways of consuming
• approaches we have the approach of the emptiness ways of looking we have this large this approach of their sort of um
• sounds a little bit similar to the emptiness ways of looking thing that i would um that i have offered and laid
• beyond our usual conception perception uh the whole emptiness ways of looking idea the whole

The Birth of a Bodhisattva - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 19 mentions

• interestingly neglected but the other was to fully understand the emptiness of all things of all phenomena those two
• originally said and so that's where the emptiness piece comes in and also that somehow the emphasis on
• rebirth of the emphasis on compassion fullness of understanding on emptiness so bodhisattva is really someone who is
• in the future so you know we talked about emptiness the other night very you know hard to understand subject
• more than anything else it's it's the understanding of emptiness it's the opening to emptiness it softens our view
• understanding of emptiness it's the opening to emptiness it softens our view and i would say
• and i would say the more one goes into emptiness and the more one
• more one contemplates emptiness understands it the more devotion comes into the being
• ourselves to that in a way that's not attached so emptiness is not something that's dry or cold is certainly not
• last week but a few little ways there's many ways of seeing emptiness but the point of a practice like what
• habit of delusion of not seeing emptiness of seeing independently existing things themselves
• both and just remember the emptiness is one tool it's a tool we pick up for freedom
• and at some point it came up this thing about emptiness and someone sort of said well it's all empty and really nothing
• really see it that way unless we our understanding emptiness is so evolving that really means something for us in a
• compassion then you can put down the emptinesses at all forget about it it's just words it's just cleverness and you
• one actually eventually does see with this emptiness business suffering too is empty doesn't exist inherently and
• all empty and somehow the very seeing of the emptiness of that liberates more compassion it liberates more compassion
• the compassion with the emptiness of it all it's all empty i'm empty the person i as the giver of
• that's what allows a body sapper to be a bodysapper is that the emptiness and the compassion

Exploring the Relationship with Practice - (Meditation on Emptiness) 19 mentions

• significant in terms of the practice unfolding and understanding emptiness and and the realization of emptiness
• unfolding and understanding emptiness and and the realization of emptiness i'm not going to go into it now but just
• talk about stream entry or you know having a direct cognition of emptiness whatever the language one uses
• deepening of one's understanding of in this case emptiness and the view gets the view of emptiness you understand it
• this case emptiness and the view gets the view of emptiness you understand it gets more subtle it grows
• entertain questions regarding this dharma this teaching of emptiness even entertaining a question about it tears
• will be exploring emptiness for the rest of certainly this lifetime you will be
• people don't really get it there about emptiness and then later later they start to get in
• something something about how difficult the teachings of emptiness independent rising are to actually understand and
• that now in these teachings of emptiness i can't remember if i said this before but
• popular kind of understanding of emptiness um
• personal uh inherently existing self just the emptiness of this self and the emptiness of other phenomena is
• just the emptiness of this self and the emptiness of other phenomena is kind of not relevant
• at a certain level in a certain uh understanding of emptiness is really really fine
• so there are some ways of understanding emptiness in the world right now that are as i said very
• suffering comes in our life through not understanding emptiness that's the bottom line reason why we suffer
• remind oneself i need to understand emptiness because if i don't or to the degree that i don't i suffer it's just
• as able to help other suffering beings as i would be if i understood emptiness more deeply
• um effort in in meditation or from the emptiness meditation or effort in life towards practice and that's why i was

Practising with Death and Dying - (In Psyche's Orchard) 19 mentions

• that has to do with just ways of looking at emptiness both of them recognize that ideas logoy conceptual frameworks are
• into perhaps four and one is is emptiness practice and understanding
• and similarly seeing the emptiness of time the emptiness of past future and of
• similarly seeing the emptiness of time the emptiness of past future and of present
• present complete emptiness of time the emptiness of any present moment
• complete emptiness of time the emptiness of any present moment there's something about that
• the notions of time centers of time you see the emptiness of time and that does something that opens up the sense of
• that in the magic the emptiness and the divinity is is a sacredness
• sacredness it comes right out of emptiness practice sacredness that comes out of emptiness
• emptiness practice sacredness that comes out of emptiness perhaps the sense of sacredness that
• that direction so those four things from the emptiness in that much fuller sense the sense of
• and what sense is a really beautiful life and the emptiness of it all the very not neither real nor not real
• and even the journey into the experience of emptiness all this is a long longer term devotions and trends
• it like seeing the emptiness of things if it if it's fruit is then inaction oh
• as always as keep stressing the fact of emptiness the fact of their emptiness the fact of their emptiness of
• emptiness the fact of their emptiness the fact of their emptiness of any
• big black empty space that kind of universal emptiness of oneness or essence excuse me
• of this dissolving into universal emptiness whatever
• spiritual context sometimes we're taught to see that emptiness is more true the absolute is more true than