Emptiness - Rob Burbea's Digital Garden

#IndexEntry #Buddhology ### Top 10 referring talks talk | count | series :- | - |: - <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> | 44 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> | 41 | <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a> <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> | 25 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> | 22 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> | 20 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> | 18 | <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a> <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> | 15 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> | 12 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> <a data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas" class="internal-link">An Introduction to the Jhanas</a> | 9 | <a data-href="2019 Practising the Jhanas" class="internal-link">2019 Practising the Jhanas</a> <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> | 9 | <a data-href="2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation" class="internal-link">2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation</a> ### Paragraphs with 4+ mentions description | count | talk :- | : - | :- <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > Only Buddhas can contemplate emptiness and appearance at the same time" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#Only Buddhas can contemplate emptiness and appearance at the same time" class="internal-link">Only Buddhas can contemplate emptiness and appearance at the same time</a> | 8 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Rob That I cannot say how a thing is that is the meaning of emptiness" data-href="Love and Emptiness#Rob That I cannot say how a thing is that is the meaning of emptiness" class="internal-link">Rob: That I cannot say how a thing is, that is the meaning of emptiness</a> | 8 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > Playing with walking a tightrope of keeping appearances around but knowing them as empty" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#Playing with walking a tightrope of keeping appearances around but knowing them as empty" class="internal-link">Playing with walking a tightrope of keeping appearances around but knowing them as empty</a> | 7 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Equanimity in Compassion > Paradoxically we become even more devoted with seeing the emptiness of everything" data-href="Equanimity in Compassion#Paradoxically we become even more devoted with seeing the emptiness of everything" class="internal-link">Paradoxically, we become even more devoted with seeing the emptiness of everything</a> | 7 | <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > The indicator for emptiness is love and freedom" data-href="Love and Emptiness#The indicator for emptiness is love and freedom" class="internal-link">The indicator for emptiness is love and freedom</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3 > Buddha-nature according to Shentong" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3#Buddha-nature according to Shentong" class="internal-link">Buddha-nature according to Shentong</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > The understanding of emptiness allows a softening of the way one sees suffering" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#The understanding of emptiness allows a softening of the way one sees suffering" class="internal-link">The understanding of emptiness allows a softening of the way one sees suffering</a> | 5 | <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3 > 4 Emptiness" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3#4 Emptiness" class="internal-link">(4) Emptiness</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > Appearences fade because Im releasing the clinging" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#Appearences fade because I'm releasing the clinging" class="internal-link">Appearences fade because I'm releasing the clinging</a> | 4 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > The links of dependent origination are not real either" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#The links of dependent origination are not real either" class="internal-link">The links of dependent origination are not real either</a> | 4 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual" class="internal-link">Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual</a> | 4 | <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and the Emptiness of Things > Through loving-kindness and compassion practices we see into the relationship that we have with experience i e into emptiness" data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things#Through loving-kindness and compassion practices we see into the relationship that we have with experience i e into emptiness" class="internal-link">Through loving-kindness and compassion practices, we see into the relationship that we have with experience, i.e. into emptiness</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> <a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > Maturity in practice comes from being able to move between different ways of seeing" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#Maturity in practice comes from being able to move between different ways of seeing" class="internal-link">Maturity in practice comes from being able to move between different ways of seeing</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> ### Terms with 20+ co-occurrences term | count | talks -|-|- [[Insight]] | 54 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (9) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (5) · <a data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas" class="internal-link">An Introduction to the Jhanas</a> (4) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (4) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (4) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (3) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2) [[Perception]] | 42 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (10) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (9) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (4) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (4) · <a data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas" class="internal-link">An Introduction to the Jhanas</a> (3) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2) [[Experience]] | 34 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (5) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (5) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (3) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2) [[Love]] | 34 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (16) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (7) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (1) [[Compassion]] | 31 | <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (7) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (5) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2) [[Craving]] | 30 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (8) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (7) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2) [[Mind]] | 27 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (6) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (4) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (3) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (2) [[Clinging]] | 26 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (14) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 1</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2) [[The Self]] | 26 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (10) · <a data-href="Daimon, Refracted" class="internal-link">Daimon, Refracted</a> (3) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (2) [[Dukkha]] | 23 | <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (5) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2) [[Ways of looking]] | 22 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (7) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (3) · <a data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas" class="internal-link">An Introduction to the Jhanas</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2) [[Consciousness]] | 21 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (4) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (4) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2) [[Dharma]] | 21 | <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (4) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (2) · <a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 1" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 1</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2) [[Fabrication]] | 21 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (12) · <a data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas" class="internal-link">An Introduction to the Jhanas</a> (2) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> (1) [[Buddha]] | 20 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a> (6) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2) [[Freedom]] | 20 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (3) · <a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2) [[Metta]] | 20 | <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) ### Quotes **<a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a>** <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> > Seeing emptiness leads to love and compassion, because it's kind of done away with the reality of separation, with the reality of barriers, with the reality of real problems, real faults, with the investment we have in self-inflating or self-depreciation.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > The indicator for emptiness is love and freedom" data-href="Love and Emptiness#The indicator for emptiness is love and freedom" class="internal-link">The indicator for emptiness is love and freedom</a>_ > There's a kind of grasping that goes on with attention. But we can also see that we can be paying attention to something, and then when we let go of a lot of grasping, that thing that we're paying attention to actually begins to blur and to fade... Grasping is part of perception... No grasping, no perception.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Rob attention is kind of like prongs" data-href="Love and Emptiness#Rob attention is kind of like prongs" class="internal-link">Rob: attention is kind of like prongs</a>_ **<a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a>** <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> > So this practice that we've been doing this week, with directing kindness towards things, and sometimes the things fade - one actually sees that, through the lack of kindness or the lack of acceptance, a perception is actually getting built, it's getting fabricated or compounded, to use the Buddha's words, constructed in the moment. Without the mind doing something, that perception cannot be there. So something, whatever's going on, is just a perception. It's just fabricated. It's empty, in other words. It's empty.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Equanimity in Compassion > Practice seeing things as just perceptions" data-href="Equanimity in Compassion#Practice seeing things as just perceptions" class="internal-link">Practice: seeing things as just perceptions</a>_ **<a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a>** <a data-href="2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation" class="internal-link">2007 New Years Retreat Insight Meditation</a> > I was just being there, and the experience was getting more and more bright, more and more there, more and more present, more and more radiant. But if I keep letting go, it actually begins to fade. Experience itself begins to blur and dissolve and fade and become less prominent in consciousness.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="What is Insight > When you dont stop there experience begins to fade" data-href="What is Insight#When you don't stop there experience begins to fade" class="internal-link">When you don't stop there, experience begins to fade</a>_ > It's pointing to seeing this: the more I cling in any way, the more prominent experience is in consciousness. I begin to understand _how_ things arise and _how_ they fade.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="What is Insight > Satipatthana Sutta" data-href="What is Insight#Satipatthana Sutta" class="internal-link">Satipatthana Sutta</a>_ **<a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a>** <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> > I find nothing but perceptions, and they are inseparable, and in a way, it's seeing - it's a way that this impermanence can lead to an understanding of emptiness.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > Those perceptions are not separate from the universe from the world" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#Those perceptions are not separate from the universe from the world" class="internal-link">Those perceptions are not separate from the universe, from the world</a>_ > Without belief in the self, there can't really be fear. Where is the fear going to take root? It's around self. When we begin to understand, deeply and in the heart, this emptiness of self, we realize there's actually nothing real here to protect, to defend, to worry about, and fear gets released at a very deep level in our lives.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > We want to understand something about what the self is and how it is in a way that brings freedom into our life" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#We want to understand something about what the self is and how it is in a way that brings freedom into our life" class="internal-link">We want to understand something about what the self is, and how it is, in a way that brings freedom into our life</a>_ > So you can play with kind of going into that emptiness, but not too much, so you still keep them around a bit. You kind of see that they're empty, but you also don't go too far into that - you can kind of pull them back and forth on this sliding scale of emptiness.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > 2 You can play with how formed you make someone" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#2 You can play with how formed you make someone" class="internal-link">(2) You can play with how formed you make someone</a>_ > So you kind of make them somewhat empty, but not completely empty, so you've still got a sense of somewhere you can direct the _mettā_ towards.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > 2 You can play with how formed you make someone" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#2 You can play with how formed you make someone" class="internal-link">(2) You can play with how formed you make someone</a>_ > What certain situations need is very relative, conventional language. We need to talk about our emotions; we need to express what we feel to each other; we need to respect that. I need to respect my emotions and your emotions at that level. So in that moment, that's what's helpful, that way of looking. But I'm saying a mature practice is able to move between picking that up, putting it down, picking up other ways of seeing - emptiness, _anattā_, etc. - and putting them down, not getting stuck in one or the other.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > Maturity in practice comes from being able to move between different ways of seeing" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#Maturity in practice comes from being able to move between different ways of seeing" class="internal-link">Maturity in practice comes from being able to move between different ways of seeing</a>_ > Difficult things are held in place, basically, by aversion, by grasping, by identification, by all these things we're talking about letting go of. So as you let go of them, they tend to fade. Happiness, at one level, or peace, or joy, is also held in place by grasping, to an extent. But it's a more subtle kind of grasping. What one finds is that if one lets go of the grasping towards happiness, the happiness actually deepens. It becomes more refined.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > When we let go were actually taking away some of what is building an experience and it begins to fade" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#When we let go we're actually taking away some of what is building an experience and it begins to fade" class="internal-link">When we let go, we're actually taking away some of what is building an experience, and it begins to fade</a>_ **<a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a>** <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> > To have a perception, I need the rest of the universe to perceive. So we can talk about emptiness. We can also say emptiness is fullness: _this_ is _full_ of everything. This being, these beings, this self is _full_ of the universe.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Compassion (talk) > Perception is a double-sided feature" data-href="Compassion (talk)#Perception is a double-sided feature" class="internal-link">Perception is a double-sided feature</a>_ **<a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a>** <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> > To begin to see into relationship is to begin to see into emptiness. And to begin to see into emptiness is to begin to see into freedom. That's where the deepest freedom is. It's right there.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and the Emptiness of Things > Through loving-kindness and compassion practices we see into the relationship that we have with experience i e into emptiness" data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things#Through loving-kindness and compassion practices we see into the relationship that we have with experience i e into emptiness" class="internal-link">Through loving-kindness and compassion practices, we see into the relationship that we have with experience, i.e. into emptiness</a>_ **<a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a>** <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a> > There are many ways of seeing emptiness. But the point of a practice like what we've introduced this week is that one sees it over and over. One does this over and over until, more and more, the coin drops.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual" class="internal-link">Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual</a>_ > And just to remember that emptiness is one tool. It's a tool we pick up for freedom from suffering, for the release from suffering. So compassion is another. They're both tools. And there are times when they come together in one kind of flow.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual" class="internal-link">Contemplation of emptiness is very gradual</a>_ > Now, ultimately speaking, you _could_ say nothing happened that day. Nothing happened _really_. But unless we can pick that up and really see it that way, unless our understanding of emptiness is so evolved that that really means something for us, in a way that it liberates compassion, then you put down the emptiness as a tool. Forget about it. It's just words. It's just cleverness. And you pick up the tool of compassion, and you relate in terms of beings suffering and my response to their suffering.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > Story 9 11 was not nothing happened" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#Story 9 11 was not nothing happened" class="internal-link">Story: 9/11 was not "nothing happened"</a>_ > It's all empty. At one level, nothing happened. At another level, I'm right there. That's what allows a bodhisattva to be a bodhisattva, is that the emptiness and the compassion are together. Without that, forget about it.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > The bodhisattva can make such a huge aspiration because theyre holding the compassion with the emptiness of it all" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#The bodhisattva can make such a huge aspiration because they're holding the compassion with the emptiness of it all" class="internal-link">The bodhisattva can make such a huge aspiration because they're holding the compassion with the emptiness of it all</a>_ **<a data-href="Questioning Awakening" class="internal-link">Questioning Awakening</a>** <a data-href="2014 November Solitary - Questioning Awakening" class="internal-link">2014 November Solitary - Questioning Awakening</a> > Axiomatic: there's nothing beyond this. What do you mean by _this_? What do you mean? Poke, question. What do you mean by _this_? Do you mean matter? Or do you mean appearances? Big difference in what is meant. If you mean matter, what is it that you mean by matter? {quote If you mean appearances, there's nothing beyond appearances, again, what exactly do you mean? And do you understand, through meditation, the dependent arising and the dependent fading and cessation of all appearances, so that there can be a beyond this, a beyond appearances? This is available in meditation.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Questioning Awakening > There is nothing beyond this - what do you mean with this" data-href="Questioning Awakening#There is nothing beyond this - what do you mean with this" class="internal-link">"There is nothing beyond this" - what do you mean with "this"?</a>_ **<a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2</a>** <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a> > More craving, more solid and more dense and more real, if you like, the world becomes, and more oppressive. Let go of craving, let go at a deeper level, start to see these dependencies, start to see objects, too, begin to fade out.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > Less craving less self gets fabricated - - fading" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#Less craving less self gets fabricated - - fading" class="internal-link">Less craving, less self gets fabricated - - fading</a>_ > They fade in the sense that they blur, they dissolve. They fade into white light or into blackness or whatever. They disappear.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > Appearences fade because Im releasing the clinging" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#Appearences fade because I'm releasing the clinging" class="internal-link">Appearences fade because I'm releasing the clinging</a>_ > We need to see this dependent fabrication and dependent fading many, many times, because it's such a deep level of delusion that's entrenched there for us to believe in the reality of things...   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > We need to see the fading many times" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#We need to see the fading many times" class="internal-link">We need to see the fading many times</a>_ > I cannot have a full leaning on the insight of emptiness at the same time as I have the appearance of an object. It will fade to the degree that I lean on, that I allow the fullness of that knowing of its emptiness into the way of looking.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > Only Buddhas can contemplate emptiness and appearance at the same time" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#Only Buddhas can contemplate emptiness and appearance at the same time" class="internal-link">Only Buddhas can contemplate emptiness and appearance at the same time</a>_ > Actually, even this teaching of dependent origination, all those links, we start to understand, in a way, that that very teaching starts to melt itself. Those links, they melt, they overlap, they blur, they fade. We see they're not real things either.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2 > The links of dependent origination are not real either" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 2#The links of dependent origination are not real either" class="internal-link">The links of dependent origination are not real either</a>_ **<a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a>** <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a> > [N]either that chocolate cake investigation or the tea investigation, nor the deep investigation into dependent arising and emptiness that I explained, will be enough for understanding and opening out and giving nourishment and life, and structure and vision, and opening doors in the realm, in the direction, of the soul-passions or the subtle movements of eros.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3 > Nourishment life structure vision opening doors" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3#Nourishment life structure vision opening doors" class="internal-link">Nourishment, life, structure, vision, opening doors</a>_ > And, conversely, the investigation of my soul-passions, and my desire in relation to that, and that kind of eros, whether it's really strong or much more subtle, won't be - it will actually tell me _something_ about dependent origination and emptiness, _something_, but not enough for the full monty there, the full depth of that.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3 > Each of the three are different doors directions avenues" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3#Each of the three are different doors directions avenues" class="internal-link">Each of the three are different doors, directions, avenues</a>_ **<a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a>** <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a> > [T]hat understanding of emptiness ... well, let's say this: it can provide a non-realist basis for all these other explanations and explorations that we're going into.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1 > It also fits with emptiness teachings" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1#It also fits with emptiness teachings" class="internal-link">It also fits with emptiness teachings</a>_ > [T]hese teachings are integrated into the usual Dharma teachings about craving and letting go and releasing _dukkha_, and the much deeper teachings about dependent arising and emptiness, and that forms a non-realist basis.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1 > The different ways of looking form a non-realist basis for explanations and explorations" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1#The different ways of looking form a non-realist basis for explanations and explorations" class="internal-link">The different ways of looking form a non-realist basis for explanations and explorations</a>_ **<a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3</a>** <a data-href="2017 Eros Unfettered" class="internal-link">2017 Eros Unfettered</a> > I would say this body of material needs listening to, studying, practising with - all that material around the emptiness, but certainly around the imaginal material, in series. In other words, it adds up. In that way, only then can a person kind of see and understand what is meant in these teachings.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3 > What soul-styles can we approach this material with" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3#What soul-styles can we approach this material with" class="internal-link">What soul-styles can we approach this material with</a>_ > Buddha-nature, _dharmakāya_, emptiness, the Absolute, and other words (there are quite a few words that are used interchangeably), means something like the cosmic awareness that is inherently in me and in you and in everything, that knows the emptiness of all things, is not separate (as separating subjects and objects). In that sense, it's non-dual. It refers, then, to the knowing - which is also empty; this knowing awareness is empty in itself - but the knowing and_ the appearances _and_ their emptiness.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3 > Buddha-nature according to Shentong" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3#Buddha-nature according to Shentong" class="internal-link">Buddha-nature according to Shentong</a>_ > World Soul - there's a kind of intelligence or divine activity that's operating in and through and as Buddha-nature, as well as that awareness and its inseparability from emptiness, from appearances, etc.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3 > The dharmakaya can act in the world" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 3#The dharmakaya can act in the world" class="internal-link">The dharmakaya can act in the world</a>_ **<a data-href="Daimon, Refracted" class="internal-link">Daimon, Refracted</a>** <a data-href="2019 Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light" class="internal-link">2019 Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light</a> > [W]hen we talk about the _imaginal_ Middle Way, we're not talking about simply a dissolution, a melting of the self, a dissolving, a disappearing, a fading of self or other objects of the imagination. To be an object of the imagination, it must be formed in some way.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Daimon, Refracted > We are free to entertain any sense of self" data-href="Daimon, Refracted#We are free to entertain any sense of self" class="internal-link">We are free to entertain any sense of self</a>_ **<a data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas" class="internal-link">An Introduction to the Jhanas</a>** <a data-href="2019 Practising the Jhanas" class="internal-link">2019 Practising the Jhanas</a> > [S]ensitivity, subtle attunement, refinement - you see, those same kind of developments are actually part of _jhāna_, emptiness, soulmaking, emotional work, healing, and relational stuff. There's something very integrated here.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="An Introduction to the Jhanas > Jhana practice can fit very naturally into other practices" data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas#Jhana practice can fit very naturally into other practices" class="internal-link">Jhana practice can fit very naturally into other practices</a>_ > [I]f I want a liberation that actually does have sensitivity in it, and attunement, and relational skill, and psychological awareness, and want to understand about emptiness as something very different, to do with ways of looking and fabrication, then I'm going to have to think about _jhānas_ in a very different way.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="An Introduction to the Jhanas > Theres a relationship between the way the goal is seen and what I emphasize in jhana practice" data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas#There's a relationship between the way the goal is seen and what I emphasize in jhana practice" class="internal-link">There's a relationship between the way the goal is seen and what I emphasize in jhana practice</a>_ > Yes, definitely, we _do_ want to increase and develop our focus and our concentration. But we also, and oftentimes more importantly, are interested in this development of deep, profound resources, of training the perceptions (what does that mean?), the relation of that with emptiness understanding, and the development of all these lovely, lovely capacities and capabilities of attunement, sensitivity, subtlety of awareness, beauty, magic, art.   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="An Introduction to the Jhanas > We are interested in the development of deep profound resources" data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas#We are interested in the development of deep profound resources" class="internal-link">We are interested in the development of deep, profound resources</a>_ **<a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 3" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 3</a>** <a data-href="2020 Vajra Music" class="internal-link">2020 Vajra Music</a> > This angel, in the mystery of their being, in the mystery of this angelic constellation, this angelic relationship, this angel is both other and self. But it's [[Divinity|theophany]]. It's a face of the divine. It's an expression of the divine, which is different than an <a data-href="emptiness" class="internal-link">emptiness</a>. An emptiness is not a theophany. An emptiness is usually construed as an essence, usually construed as a transcendent essence beyond all attributes. A theophany is a face, ... a being in itself......   _<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 3 > If we do not aim for Aspect 4 we might see the face of the divine Aspect 5" data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 3#If we do not aim for Aspect 4 we might see the face of the divine Aspect 5" class="internal-link">If we do not aim for Aspect 4 we might see the face of the divine (Aspect 5)</a>_