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Freedom from Fear and Anxiety - (Path of Liberation, IMS) 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 it almost to me just suggests to hunter

Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A) - (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 it almost to me just suggests to hunter

What is Awakening? (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 14 mentions

• i suppose that if if the bar was set higher this kind of radical emptiness of everything that person in in their
• self view because you realize the radical thorough emptiness of absolutely everything all self-views collapse as uh
• there's no because of the radical emptiness of all things there's no kind of singular way things are there's no
• um it also includes this radical emptiness of all phenomena and this non-duality
• and that many mahayana texts are pointing to the emptiness of awakening the non-duality of nirvana and samsara
• foreign but this emptiness of awakening doesn't mean that we throw away from me doesn't
• the same there's no there's nothing possible it's not to me the emptiness awakening is not saying that
• um the personally uh it's not the emptiness of self in other words the insight of
• um and that that kind of question that emptiness itself that seems to capture um
• secondly the related insight or view that knows and perceives the emptiness of everything
• and again it's not it's not so that so i see the emptiness and you realize nothing matters because it's all empty
• realization this insight view of the emptiness of all things in a way that makes felt some unspeakable mystery
• beauty and sacredness again it's in the emptiness that there is this sense of this this indescribable mystery of
• and and that's palpable in that insight way of looking or sense of the emptiness of all things it's not that as i said

Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation) - (Re-enchanting... 13 mentions

• some interpretations of buddha dharma especially the teachings of emptiness as i would uh
• um understanding emptiness and and more than that putting emptiness as the uh a
• understanding emptiness and and more than that putting emptiness as the uh a radical emptiness full thorough deep
• than that putting emptiness as the uh a radical emptiness full thorough deep comprehensive a radical emptiness at the
• radical emptiness full thorough deep comprehensive a radical emptiness at the basis of the path and really
• um the deeper ones realization of emptiness the more it allows and legitimizes this play this playfulness
• so for a lot of people this permission is gained through emptiness some degree of realizing emptiness of everything for
• is gained through emptiness some degree of realizing emptiness of everything for some it's through philosophy for some
• this is all shifted so whether it's through the emptiness whether it's through philosophy or
• um related to the emptiness thing but this seeing image as image and we could also
• thrust of what nagarjuna even means by emptiness so such a range to the interpretation
• in our lives in our perceptions and also the understanding of emptiness these things these two recognitions
• philosophical insight meditative insight into the rising and emptiness psychological insight recognizing that

Soulmaking Rivers (Q & A) - (Tending the Holy Fire) 13 mentions

• where i want to tie all this in businesses with emptiness is if we start with the idea of okay
• talk i gave some years ago apparently then said that emptiness emptiness um following emptiness can lead to full
• then said that emptiness emptiness um following emptiness can lead to full awakening actually let's say the
• unfabricated yeah or understanding emptiness um meta can also which people often
• goes beyond that and sees even we might say the emptiness of the unfabricated i'm just touching on this very quickly
• can come strictly from that that kind of really deep understanding of emptiness that liberates the possibility and
• of people who've actually practiced all that way with emptiness in order for them for them in order then for it to
• through all that practice with with the emptiness do you understand um
• um and start practicing with it before they've done all that emptiness business so they've only done a little bit of it
• the other sense so there's a kind of way that something similar to the emptiness process the loosening of that the un
• happen through imaginal practice hint so that's into and more emptiness yeah in this understanding of the
• emotional awareness psychological healing imaginal practice uh emptiness it's this big mandala so it's a it's a
• imaginal that loosen up the understanding of emptiness we've said that there's ways of going into the

Emotional Healing - (November Solitary) 13 mentions

• disconnection of emptiness in the non-direct sense if there's a distance from it
• gone so impermanence emptiness what does emptiness have to do with all this
• so impermanence emptiness what does emptiness have to do with all this and emptiness there's a lot of different
• emptiness have to do with all this and emptiness there's a lot of different meanings a lot of different ways we can
• completely so when we talk about emptiness this is what it means this is what emptiness
• so when we talk about emptiness this is what it means this is what emptiness really means how the thing is the view
• and you can't say what's real and that's why emptiness means so sometimes this you get another view
• so sometimes this you get another view of emptiness which is more like it's just all atoms and there's just nothing
• sharing all of this stuff about the emptiness and stuff because sometimes is it too soon to say that to a person
• so when when the understanding of emptiness goes deep or matures or whatever you want to say you can
• the mind state when we see this emptiness of the past then one can really genuinely feel a
• something real or burdensome from the point of view of emptiness what instead of talking about the release of
• and they have become crystallized and as the insight into emptiness just gradually slowly matures

Eros Unfettered (Part 5 - Otherness and the Art of Disappearing) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the... 12 mentions

• experiences of quote no self or emptiness or that kind of thing um or other kinds of art of discipline
• the two um even the kind of mutual emptiness of self and other object imaginal object
• um in insight uh just into into anything into emptiness into even into impairments wrapped up in uh all can't
• insight into in a way we could say insight into emptiness into the emptiness of the inherent existence of
• insight into emptiness into the emptiness of the inherent existence of things
• um again they see it they see see that emptiness see the um the
• this whole insight into um emptiness philosophically is with the notion of participation but as i said
• sometimes based on insight and deeper insight into emptiness rather than just impermanence and
• recognizing one could say seeing the emptiness and eternality of images
• but it has this timelessness seeing the emptiness and eternality of images the world is re-enchanted
• infinite things open infinitely seeing the imaginal seeing the emptiness and
• one is through a much deeper understanding of emptiness now that in itself is not endless in other words one

In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 12 mentions

• difficult emotions play with the energy body learn different emptiness practices find my way around the imagining all
• goal and tradition in relationship with deep emptiness practice
• practice or deep emptiness practices that's the first of the five
• and direction and domain of deep emptiness practice could be some people say oh when i
• uh when i realized or if i realize uh deep emptiness then i will end suffering i won't suffer anymore or i will
• thousands of years and when i'm engaged in emptiness practice or reading about it or hearing about i somehow feel
• what that whole framework of moving deeper into emptiness and understanding of that and and the practices involved i
• or again it might be that in relation to the whole deep emptiness trajectory um you it's just not a life for you yet
• has a goal has a final arriving point with emptiness practice i suppose that at least in the way i would think about
• in in that um in that realization of emptiness without getting kind of you know shifted
• is just once one has realized the emptiness of everything then you know tick that box kind of thing it's done
• to to grab onto unlike something like emptiness practice which can tend to sort of have depths

Practising with the Three Characteristics - (Meditation on Emptiness) 12 mentions

• but remember these practices that we're doing with emptiness and with not self etc they are just
• experience the whole teaching of emptiness the whole reason why nagarjuna bothered to
• will also hear people talking about emptiness and kind of saying to say something is
• fleeting everything's very fleeting that's equating emptiness with impermanence okay you understand you're
• you take a description of impermanence and saying that's what emptiness means do you follow
• do you follow um that's not what emptiness means okay it's uh it's important to see that you
• harks back to the first talk i did on the general talk on emptiness emptiness really means it's this thing
• the general talk on emptiness emptiness really means it's this thing is dependent on the point of view of the
• understanding as a full understanding of emptiness it's it's not as complete as powerful
• things don't arise out of nothing now again teachings on emptiness even within the buddhist tradition you get it talked
• next week sometime um you get talked about emptiness is this big nothing out of which everything
• as i said they unfold and eventually they reveal the emptiness of inherent existence of all phenomena so we we go

No Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 12 mentions

• practice meaning the deep direct seeing of emptiness in a way you actually feel is freeing
• talk me to just think about how i'm communicating there's no emptiness no business have not self just just about
• phenomena being empty the understanding the practice of seeing the emptiness of phenomena you know that's a deep it's
• it's important to realize with this stuff about emptiness the the dukkah we have in life the dissatisfaction that
• does have inherent existence and i keep saying is emptiness is not a teaching of disappointment it's not a teaching of
• will hear in teaching some people uh use that model and say the emptiness of the mind when people are talking about the
• mind when people are talking about the emptiness of the mind what they're really talking about is cleaning that
• outside uh sometimes also you hear emptiness of mind or no mind means no thought
• but all this business we've done in terms of seeing the emptiness of phenomena
• what does purity mean turns actually out to mean emptiness emptiness of inherent existence
• existence so right there in the pali canon is the teaching of the emptiness of phenomena
• bit but basically luminosity might be emptiness in other words luminosity means it's