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The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Part One) - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 18 mentions

• outside postpone that for next year and i changed it to uh emptiness so if you knew that that will be the topic today
• knew that that will be the topic today this theme of emptiness weirdest thing of emptiness
• this theme of emptiness weirdest thing of emptiness um
• okay let's talk a little bit generally about this emptiness it's voidness it's sometimes called
• um emptiness synonym is voidness um in in
• have actually not heard much about emptiness you might have heard the word not quite
• question emptiness teachings at that level of darn teachings is actually starting to
• many of you as i said probably have not heard much at all about emptiness i'm aware of that
• english english language because it's emptiness and we tend to think oh bleakness or barrenness or depressed or
• developed their understanding the realization of emptiness the hearts and their minds will be devoted to the
• it seems so real everything seems sorry emptiness teaching is saying not as real as it seems to be not as real as it
• that's what we assume that's what we feel and emptiness teaching saying ah nothing nothing in the whole of
• yeah okay that's emptiness right there everyone's had even a non-meditator has
• everyone's had even a non-meditator has seen it it's a level of emptiness right there because i see the elusive nature
• relative to a normal magazine emptiness right now that's the thread that i want to pick up
• um if i say to you seeing the emptiness or the constructive nature of
• that can be there deconstructing seeing the emptiness but feeling the freedom and the release that
• taught about entrance of this radical very deep emptiness and they actually throw up

Deepening Into Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 4) - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 18 mentions

• a misperception of reality which is what emptiness is all about it's like marie the meta two actually both of them
• reality we have we we seems so obvious this is what emptiness is all about everything seems so obvious i'm here
• which only cause more pain yeah so this when we go into emptiness if you like where uh in the buddhist was
• wanted to ask about um looking for the emptiness of the body yeah i mean i'm doing something i
• of the treat but because we're talking about emptiness it's like that's where all the teaching goes but it's really
• it's really a problem but we can also grasp all of emptiness and and make it a problem there now gardener says
• something like you know if you cling to emptiness or pick it up in the wrong way it's like picking up a snake at the
• have to have wisdom in in relating to emptiness because it could go into nihilism this kind of just obliterate
• being that's what's called the middle way of emptiness teachings it's not saying it doesn't exist it's not saying
• as one deepens in the understanding of emptiness that it sort of one one oscillates around that middle way less
• boxes and i can be in the box of emptiness whatever that means to me right now and
• that stuff and the similar with emptiness is it opening up the love is it opening up the sense of connectedness
• in in the deepening of the understanding emptiness the middle way comes more and more
• also talking about last night the whole emotional reaction to emptiness and stuff and so sometimes
• that alive and sometimes it's just fear and not quite trusting the emptiness yet and sometimes that's coming out delusion
• what i've been able to understand about emptiness has been realized through the matter and inside myself and the whole
• between felt sense of self and emptiness between
• begins so one whole way that the emptiness practice can unfold is really getting opening up to that sense and the

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6) - (The Mirrored Gates) 18 mentions

• what i would call a deep a deep understanding of emptiness and that one that's really accessible
• of things of um the middle way of emptiness neither real nor not real and the kind of magic
• sacredness of things and then that middle way of emptiness it's for some people it's quite easy then uh it's
• sometimes again people with um uh a lot of deep emptiness practice if that's something you've developed or
• one thoroughly and absolutely knows the emptiness of time everything else and that knowing of the emptiness of the
• emptiness of time everything else and that knowing of the emptiness of the time
• relationship of this imaginal middle way to the middle way of emptiness and the more traditional
• teachings middle way referring to emptiness between is and is not exists and doesn't exist real and not real so
• what's the relationship between that sort of traditional emptiness middle way and the uh imaginable way
• they're not quite one in the same um that i would say the emptiness middle way is for me is extremely important but
• understanding that empty that deep deeply the middle way of emptiness um is an integral part of a much larger
• um the emptiness middle way when they really get a deep sense of that it
• that's what is that that understanding emptiness middleware is a springboard um either in in conceptually or in
• um other people don't need that deep sense of the middle way of emptiness i'm in their practice it's quite a deep
• um one really sees for oneself one understands in one's bones the emptiness of everything that means it's not that
• this journey into understanding emptiness in practice it has to be in practice and
• really goes into the roots of what emptiness means and what we can sense or what emptiness means and it is that
• emptiness means and what we can sense or what emptiness means and it is that everything actually becomes sacred

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) - (Path of the Imaginal) 18 mentions

• um on ex on understanding a deep understanding of emptiness and some of the experiences will also
• depend on a deepening a deep experiences of emptiness in practice so for those of you who are not yet that
• be something for that fills out more as you as you're understanding of emptiness and your practice
• and your practice um with emptiness deepens
• everything shares in the nature of emptiness and the nature of
• to tie it together with an understanding of emptiness and as i said before to put everything uh old armor on a basis of
• everything uh old armor on a basis of emptiness thoroughly and so
• that kind of teaching that kind of way in to understanding of emptiness and tied together
• you're holding all this um understanding of emptiness very very lightly in the minds not a great deal of
• under the deep understanding of the emptiness of all of it radical deep total emptiness
• emptiness of all of it radical deep total emptiness and it's possible then to play because
• ways sometimes it's used to refer to emptiness sometimes ultimate means um what what a buddha enjoys or or what
• um so he would use the same words like emptiness or suchness or ultimate in different ways at different times but in
• um awareness that is empty uh and and that nose emptiness uh
• but it's a gnosis it's an awareness that knows the emptiness of everything including itself space time all objects
• the empty awareness that knows the emptiness of all things and the object of aspect that the perceptions of the
• skill with emptiness and playing with fabrication and appearance and unfabricating when i
• when we tend towards nurses when there's a lot of emptiness and the malleability and seeing when there's very little

Compassion and Emptiness - (November Solitary) 17 mentions

• foreign passion and emptiness if
• what i was talking about in the last talk of this not emptiness of self again if i'm not so enclosed in myself
• with this emptiness of self that we've been talking a little bit about is it really
• the beginnings of another dimension of emptiness so we talk about the emptiness of cells and people but
• emptiness so we talk about the emptiness of cells and people but actually the emptiness of everything
• the emptiness of cells and people but actually the emptiness of everything if i'm angry if i'm hurt and i give
• the beginnings of understanding a deeper understanding of emptiness we can
• this oneness of seeing oneness seeing this emptiness talk about we can talk about the
• talk about we can talk about the emptiness of the self we can also talk about in a way the fullness of the self
• so all this is bound up in the ones too emptiness is fullness so we talk about an empty being but it's
• oh i don't know as we talk about emptiness and it seems a bit um it's not an easy thing to understand and
• we could go on to i won't but we could go on talking about emptiness but um
• one of the things to realize is that if emptiness if seeing emptiness is not is not uh resulting in compassion uh
• a real understanding there it's not a real understanding of emptiness and we need to actually look again and look in
• the signs of of seeing deeply when we see when we understand emptiness the emptiness of ourselves the emptiness
• when we see when we understand emptiness the emptiness of ourselves the emptiness of others the emptiness of everything
• the emptiness of ourselves the emptiness of others the emptiness of everything it brings compassion because there isn't

What is Awakening? (Part 4) - (The Mirrored Gates) 17 mentions

• and understand with that the thorough and complete and radical emptiness of all donors all phenomena without
• least because because one knows the emptiness of all phenomena all the elements that might possibly uh make up
• trajectory regarding fabrication and ways of looking and emptiness and all that
• mentioned there's the realization of the emptiness of all things and the non-duality there between what is
• um by for example realization of unfabricated or emptiness or the so-called eradication of greed aversion
• realizing i'm fabricated realizing emptiness eradicating greed of version delusion what's that going to do in
• process and they're practicing trying to deepen their emptiness and their inquiry into fabrication etc
• kind of whatever traditional forms and attitudes and and not the emptiness practice
• is um more than the emptiness more than even
• uh more based on the deep notion of emptiness and ways of looking as i talked about
• happening both in the trajectory of emptiness exploration of exploration of fabrication and ways of looking that i
• and eventually having reached the unfabric and then seeing the emptiness of fabrication because time is empty and
• in on the trajectory of the deepening exploration of emptiness fabrication ways of looking and also in the sense in
• logoy ideas conceptual frameworks so both in the kind of emptiness trajectory and in the sensing with soul
• who um is is practicing with emptiness and practicing quite creatively with
• practicing quite creatively with emptiness and deeply and sees glimpses the non-truth of all concepts
• notion of freedom someone can actually know the emptiness of it all

Opening Talk for Metta and Emptiness (Level 1): Being on Retreat - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 17 mentions

• themes that we're going to explore with loving kindness and emptiness that that possibility to me feels palpable
• this retreat the theme is about emptiness and that says not not necessarily so actually not so true
• said earlier it's like all practice and especially a practice of emptiness but all practices are um
• when i think about teaching about emptiness uh to me it's really the the the
• to me it's really the the the understanding of ever emptiness if we talk about emptiness is a real journey
• understanding of ever emptiness if we talk about emptiness is a real journey as something very very profound it's
• um and the last two years it was an emptiness retreat and um
• really interested in that emptiness means everything can be included because everything is empty
• usually it creeps in blindly and then we say no self emptiness is better than self
• it all the time but that in the on the steam train to emptiness you know the kind of the the locomotive part which is
• i want us to explore a little bit around the concepts of emptiness and meta not at this point an analysis or an
• what arises for you when you hear the word emptiness what arises for you when you hear the
• someone concepts like emptiness and matter can be a real aid in the path
• what arises right now when i say the word emptiness joy
• do you notice when i say the word emptiness uncertainty thank you
• what happens when i say the word emptiness right now magical mystery
• what happens right now when i say the word emptiness excitement laughter

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 17 mentions

• that i would say the buddha is teaching about anata and the emptiness of self all self views in that teaching all self
• has a lot of parallels with with emptiness teachings um so some people including einstein
• thoroughly on a non-refying basis of emptiness so this to me is so important it opens
• absolutely thoroughly completely on a non-rearifying basis of emptiness that means emptiness this understanding of
• non-rearifying basis of emptiness that means emptiness this understanding of non
• while everyone would agree on the word empty yes of course emptiness and emptiness but the meaning is very very
• empty yes of course emptiness and emptiness but the meaning is very very different there's all kinds of there's a
• when they use the word empty or emptiness so what i mean and what i want would
• and practice of dharma is not the sense of emptiness means things or cells are just a process in
• so what often happens in terms of people the yes yes of course emptiness everyone empty of course things are empty or of
• like ignore or don't incorporate the understanding of emptiness so the whole idea of bear attention or
• kind of data is not um in emptiness even though as i said a person might say yes yes of course
• everything's empty or they might say yes yes i agree with emptiness and it means something different by emptiness
• yes i agree with emptiness and it means something different by emptiness so that's real other things are empty
• and as one gets deeper into the teachings of emptiness and realize actually is a constriction too in the
• know and taste and wonder at so deep radical total emptiness that realization that level of insight
• deep radical total insight into emptiness thank you for listening

From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 1) - (Eros... 17 mentions

• meditation and doing some summertime or doing some emptiness and then loosening that happens
• did not teach what we might call in our language the deep emptiness of all things which perhaps was one of the two
• and the buddha did not teach how that understanding of the deep emptiness of all things begins to reveal more and
• transcendent unfairly to the tour of the deep emptiness of all things that taught the opening into the perception the
• for the path in different ways through the emptiness and through and through the understanding of the imaginal taking
• and it comes to rest on the solid ground of what emptiness and image and fantasy so we have our solidities reversed
• that all this rests on the ground of the groundlessness of emptiness and of the imaginal
• more um the emptiness of all things and eventually it even reveals the emptiness
• um the emptiness of all things and eventually it even reveals the emptiness of the whole notion of fabrication it's
• of the whole notion of fabrication it's a radical radical emptiness of all things
• buddha is the only kind of being that can fully and deeply see the emptiness of things at the same time as actually
• i'm pretty sure i've explained as you contemplate the emptiness while you're looking at something that thing will
• needs to see experiences but yeah he must see emptiness fully as well there must be no a video there
• and the understanding of the pen oriental emptiness of all things so that is one type uh one face if you like one
• understanding a deep understanding of the radical emptiness of all things and it's highly unlikely that it will um
• open up all the possibilities that come both out of seeing emptiness and out of the recognition of of
• going right through the unfabricated and then the emptiness of the unfabricated also brings a certain kind of experience

Cittamatra - (Meditation on Emptiness) 16 mentions

• seems from what you said that discovering emptiness and looks like therefore true liberation
• yesterday it will come down to understanding emptiness but that might not be a very sophisticated sort of
• now in this retreat we're talking about the emptiness itself but we're also talking about the emptiness of all
• the emptiness itself but we're also talking about the emptiness of all things all things
• so if we just talk about in a philosophical sense the emptiness of chairs and tables
• meditation really be able to see the emptiness in a very real way of those things
• in different ways in different ways different approaches the emptiness of all of them and that takes time it takes
• is it obvious to you that we suffer because we don't see emptiness is it obvious to you that we suffer
• barraged by it uh as much in the teachings as the emptiness of the self as i said earlier so it's actually not
• not even obvious that that's why we suffer because of the emptiness of things so it takes a certain level of
• different things so that's what emptiness means in this tradition it's empty of them being different substances
• different emphasis and it's more in this emptiness of a dichotomy do you understand the distinction
• um a more full and deep understanding of emptiness um
• um or to use the language that emptiness is the same as space or emptiness is
• or to use the language that emptiness is the same as space or emptiness is awareness etc
• they feel more empty but as i said emptiness has a specific meaning in chitamatra and it means empty