Shunyata Emptiness Talk 3 October 3 2017

This is the third of three talks on Shunyata - Emptiness from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on October 3, 2017. Rather than attempt to establish a self in everything (clinging to impermanent objects, events, and ideas) or to crave for establishment of self in discrete, impermanent phenomena, or conceptual “dharmas,” both extreme views, the Buddha taught emptiness as a way of describing that followers of his Dhamma should be empty of clinging to objects, events, views, and ideas, and should not attach any notion of self into, or onto, the impermanent phenomenal world.

“What is not present is understood as empty of what is not present. Whatever remains is understood as what is present - in what is seen there is only the seen, in what is heard there is only the heard, in what is cognized there is only what is cognized. “So, Ananda, this is (final) entry into emptiness which is in accord with reality and is undistorted and pure... Read More: https://becoming-buddha.com/shunyata-three-discourses-on-emptiness/

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