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Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 16 mentions

• quite a large body of work if you think about all the material and emptiness and dependent rising and um
• um all that material around the emptiness but but certainly around the imaginal material in series
• and contingent there's many ways to reveal the emptiness of itself and on many many different levels so i've
• retreats and the whole thing about emptiness and uh that unimaginal and it it it's really quite a lot and it's hard
• for me it's a very powerful way in to understanding emptiness and also the imaginal
• uh number three number four is the concept of emptiness um so this really means that what we
• powerful way of understanding and emptiness means that no thing nothing um exists in in a way that's inherent uh
• unfindable and that's another way in to uh understanding emptiness what is empty everything is empty without question so
• fabricated also illusory uh emptiness as well is also empty so empty is a very radical pervasive
• obvious way okay so that's the fourth emptiness the fifth
• interchangeable with words like dharma kind actually even the word emptiness which is used differently when they use
• using it so buddha nature damakaya emptiness the absolute in other words and there's
• um knows um the emptiness of all things is not separate as a separate subject
• the knowing and the appearances and their emptiness all that uh known in a kind of non-dual way so in other words
• empty awareness knowing all things uh and and also the emptiness of all things so everything is buddha nature
• awareness and its inseparability from emptiness from appearances etc

A Mystical Kiss (...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers, and Realists...) - (The Boundless Heart) 16 mentions

• and it's easy to blame teachings of transcendence or teachings of emptiness but that's really i think not to
• transcendent teachings deep understanding of emptiness brings a sanctity it implies a sanctity in things
• questioned both by quantum mechanics and by emptiness and the teaching events which you touched on briefly this
• would make a distinction according to the teachings of emptiness and deep dharma teachings or according to modern
• to look at that and think the teachings on emptiness and all that that's really good but all this devotion stuff we can
• kindness generosity equanimity insight into emptiness and all those practices work together in excuse me in a certain
• baby people and when you're grown up you can get onto the kind of emptiness thing or the real hardcore being with what is
• or the more love there is all the more insight into emptiness there is in the mind in the heart at any moment
• to the degree that there's letting go in science emptiness love etc to that degree
• are more i love the more i um have insight into emptiness the more mystical becomes my perception
• and the dharma says buddhist down and says emptiness this emptiness this not existing independent of the way of
• itself this emptiness is the ultimate truth of all things that's that's basically what
• the buddha was saying from from day one emptiness is the ultimate truth of all things
• brain says that's not the ultimate truth because emptiness is the ultimate truth subtle
• it's pro it's probably the closest to both this sense of emptiness in the buddhist tradition but also this sense
• an understanding of the way things are and this emptiness that infuses that infuses existence

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

Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 15 mentions

• the way that this impermanence can lead to an understanding emptiness can't find a separate self
• when we begin to understand deeply and in the heart this emptiness of self we realize there's actually nothing real
• you contemplate someone's non-fixness of self their emptiness of self
• play with kind of going into that emptiness but not too much so you still keep them around a bit so you kind of
• can kind of pull them back and forth on this sliding scale of emptiness it might sound completely unreal but it's it's
• not no because it's coming out of a contemplation of their emptiness so it's it's you're seeing rather than just sort
• and a whole other wing is this business about emptiness and and um
• and connect with one's emotions if all one had was emptiness it would be like a bird with one wing trying trying to
• we're gonna get onto this in the third week but if we just talk about emptiness i'll just say something out
• i hope it doesn't confuse but when you contemplate emptiness in certain ways things disappear so problematic emotions
• is able to contemplate emptiness and contemplate and actually keep the object around at
• down picking up other ways of seeing emptiness anata etc and putting them down not getting stuck
• on what all this has to do with emptiness and all that so usually
• understand that that's what it means to understand emptiness that's exactly what it means and that's what the word
• get to the end of three weeks and all this stuff about emptiness is i've got it i've really understood

The Theatre of Selves (Part Three) - (November Solitary) 15 mentions

• we can also lean towards uh knowing the emptiness of things including imagination knowing images image but
• one gives gives out to more depth look at it in terms of emptiness and ways of looking the whole dharma is a dance of
• that open things up bring new perspectives and reveal the emptiness of things
• because of what we said about understanding emptiness and dependent arising it depends how i look at them
• walking the deeper the insight into emptiness the easier it is to play with such ideas
• express a deep enough understanding of emptiness and particularly dependent origination
• and the whole thing can be made liquid so samadi or emptiness they make everything liquid lose its
• the imaginal practice can be a way into anata a way into seeing the emptiness of self it brings a flexibility and
• bring a deep and understanding of emptiness as i said dissolved substantiality dogmatism
• way of seeing things so in terms of seeing emptiness yeah you can see emptiness from the story and the
• so in terms of seeing emptiness yeah you can see emptiness from the story and the image and appearance is fading less
• image and appearance is fading less fabrication tells you about emptiness of things
• how it works that also tells us about emptiness the imaginal infuses life it's not
• ideally tantric practice rests on an understanding of the emptiness of self and deity
• something the buddha never intended the danger is that we don't see emptiness deeply enough because we really assume

Soulmaking (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 15 mentions

• arising very deeply and all of that brings an understanding of emptiness not to stay in any state not to stay in
• facilitated by the changes in the way of looking one understands emptiness more and more deeply
• lot less than so-called their attention and deep emptiness practices deep samadhi deep metta practice all kinds of
• um the very emptiness of the self the thorough absolute emptiness of any self-image no
• emptiness of the self the thorough absolute emptiness of any self-image no self-image no self-concept or conception
• ultimately speaking all of them are empty and that thorough emptiness of the cells allows us in fact to play with
• true and they're absolute thoroughness of the emptiness itself allows us to play with infinite infinite
• narrow i would say a full dharma understanding what emptiness means goes way way beyond that that's one
• way way beyond that that's one um one sort of direction into emptiness to a certain level full understanding of
• multi-directional we can see the emptiness of of something from many different directions and much deeper
• and all this thorough understanding of emptiness what i'm really trying to say is the thorough and the more deep our
• positive or seeing that it's not south or seeing the emptiness of this or that different times rather than all those
• whole deeper understanding of the fabrication of perception the emptiness of all things through that
• understanding and opens perception one way or another through emptiness practice through a marginal practice or
• um just seeing in terms of just purely in terms of emptiness the emptiness of all things or the oneness of all things

The Theatre of Selves (Part One) - (November Solitary) 15 mentions

• of freedom comes through seeing the emptiness of all things we see that they're actually not real in the way
• a much bigger picture and that is seeing the emptiness of things
• follow up within that emptiness of everything we have the emptiness of the self of the
• within that emptiness of everything we have the emptiness of the self of the eye the ego whatever you want to call it
• teaching of anata and seeing the emptiness of that of course that's very important seeing the
• course that's very important seeing the emptiness of the self there are many possibilities
• let's let's talk about this anatas emptiness itself just a little bit
• different ways that we can reveal this emptiness of self many many but it's worth saying here that uh we
• possibilities for for seeing the emptiness of self and there are different levels here
• one goes deeper and it has implications about the emptiness of everything but equally important for what i want to
• i listed seven before possibilities of seeing this emptiness itself there are other possibilities there are quite a
• few other possibilities for seeing the emptiness itself one of them is via the imaginal
• so let's recap that big picture what we said before we want to see the emptiness of things we want to expose the illusion
• centrally into a whole conception of the dharma that has to do with emptiness it becomes very central
• deconstructing of course it can and certainly from seeing deeper emptiness than that

Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions - (Path of the Imaginal) 15 mentions

• practice so-called um so all the range of emptiness practices and samadhi uh practices and
• non-fabrication then also understanding emptiness through that and giving us more license more permission also more
• will limit the possible understanding of deeper emptiness etc
• less and less fabrication um emptiness practices said samadhi practices metta practice those kind of
• so i need to learn this particular emptiness practice let's say regarding things as anata as not self all
• um born from from an emptiness practice from the practice of samadhi in
• effects on perception naturally bring with them either emptiness practical practices matter or compassion or
• we can actually understand more about emptiness and fabrication of perception so it kind of kinds of cosmopoises can
• infinite so it could come from emptiness practices or somaliometrical compassion
• actually beginning she was talking about emptiness practices that she was exploring with some friends as a group
• and going going through different emptiness practices together and saying that was all going really
• practices i would probably put them in in the group of emptiness practices where uh one if you like listens to
• or again if you've done a lot of emptiness practices what is it to see in terms of the aggregates but know that
• now if we say that and if one hasn't um perhaps explored emptiness enough or someone one immediate thinks oh so what
• separate and all of them are empty and it's the understanding of emptiness that's part of what allows the

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6) - (The Mirrored Gates) 14 mentions

• quite closely the middle way of emptiness that also uh releases some suffering out
• trying to apply the teachings of emptiness or the perspectives of infinite to this tragedy
• worked integrated digested understanding of emptiness that level of depth and comprehensive
• um many times i've stressed emptiness is a tool it's a very very powerful tool or
• rather to the degree that we realize emptiness um it's it's a tool of that degree of
• where it's appropriate trying to apply emptiness when we haven't we can't really even pick up
• and i practiced um in different ways with the emptiness and really seeing everything as empty
• with soul so here's an example of the emptiness practices um
• kind of ways that we talk about with emptiness practice and non-fabricating practices but also
• um or whatever sometimes with enough practice of emptiness and it may be emptiness of
• practice of emptiness and it may be emptiness of um
• realization or sense practical sense felt sense perception of the emptiness of whatever is unpleasant in the moment
• transformed when we understand its emptiness enough can be oftentimes not always oftentimes
• whatever it is with uh with skill and emptiness practice and also with um ghana practice understood the right

Shaping Vessels - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 14 mentions

• quite sure sometimes whether i'm in samadhi or emptiness isn't just blend of
• adequately that um just saying she used to be what she calls an emptiness boar i'm really interested in that so this
• um not sure am i in the state of samadi or emptiness and what's the relationship and is it possible to experience
• the mystical opening and the divinity through through emptiness of that road yeah
• everything within the dharma and things like emptiness and samadhi etc they all get interpreted according to this vision
• that is categorically and and refuses any any mystical sense then emptiness has to be interpreted accordingly and so
• i may have talked about it tonight um that uh emptiness has this kind of what i call a deflationary it's like
• um versus and the way i would construe the whole path of emptiness is um
• whole way the way at least the way i would present the way emptiness opens up it may be that the first thing is just a
• kinds of mystical experiences open up um emptiness can provide certain
• um am i in samadhi i mean emptiness the two are related they're related by virtue of
• um and and going so to speak doing emptiness practices are also practices that uh
• i suppose one of the ways it's opened up for me was was from the emptiness jules god but from the emptiness practice it
• for me was was from the emptiness jules god but from the emptiness practice it almost to me just suggests to hunter