Emptiness

Bodhisattva Vows For practicing the engaged state of bodhichitta and being best able to practice the six far-reaching attitudes, we need to take the bodhisattva vows. This involves refraining from committing the 18 root downfalls and the 46 faulty actions that transgress these...

How cognition of voidness liberates us from uncontrollably recurring samsaric rebirth is not a simple or speedy process.

Kalachakra practice includes a special way of meditating on voidness in which we meditate not just on the actual meaning of voidness, but we also try to simulate doing this with a blissful clear light mind.

A look at how dependent arising eliminates the extreme of nihilism and the extreme of absolutism.

The basis of the meditation on voidness is the identification and understanding of what is to be refuted: the truly established existence of persons and of all phenomena.

A deep understanding of the various components of an empowerment is important for gaining the most benefit from the experience.

When we correctly understand emptiness (voidness), we correctly understand dependent arising; and when we correctly understand dependent arising, we correctly understand emptiness.

The Indian Buddhist tenet systems present graded levels of understanding of how things exist like an illusion, which we can use in our daily lives.

A summary of the main assertions unique to the Gelug tradition, concerning cognition theory, the Indian Buddhist tenet systems, karma, the three times, and many more.

The assertions of the four Tibetan Buddhist traditions concerning self-voidness and other-voidness and the methods for meditating on them in the context of the clear light subtlest level of mind.