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Re: Help understanding Emptiness please!
(Quote) You're right, but in my experience it is better to focus on the experiential truth of these teachings, rather than getting bogged down in metaphysical speculations, a thicket of views. In oth… (View Post)
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Re: Who is it who suffers?
(Quote) Sunyata ( emptiness ) is really just an elaboration of anatta, which was a central theme in early Buddhism. And as the Heart Sutra explains, emptiness applies to the aggregates of personal ex… (View Post)2 -
Re: Who is it who suffers?
(Quote) You might find it helpful to explore the distinction between phenomena and noumena, which roughly speaking is the distinction between the characteristics of an object and it's assumed essence… (View Post)2 -
Re: Who is it who suffers?
(Quote) Yes, it means that everything we experience arises in dependence on conditions, and without those conditions it will cease, or not arise at all. So essentially emptiness means conditionality. (View Post)1 -
Re: Help understanding Emptiness please!
(Quote) Contemplation is helpful, but I think real insight stems from paying close attention to experience, and getting a feel for the conditionality of that experience. This is why we practice mindf… (View Post)1