Emptiness

The Indian Buddhist tenet systems differ in their views of the voidness or total absence of impossible ways that establish the existence of something and in their views of what establishes its conventional existence.

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

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

The various Tibetan Buddhist traditions differ as to the voidness non-conceptually cognized by each of the three types of practitioners – shravaka, pratyekabuddha and bodhisattva – when becoming an arya.

While voidness is one of the most difficult topics in the Buddha’s teachings, we mustn’t be afraid of voidness. When understood correctly, it will get rid of the causes of our problems.

The Gelug presentation of meditations on the different Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the selflessness of persons and phenomena.

The different views among the Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the difference between arhats’ and Buddhas’ understanding of the lack of an impossible “soul” of persons and phenomena.

An overview of the Gelug presentation and some of its ramifications concerning the view of valid cognition.

Madhyamaka masters use the five great Madhyamaka lines of reasoning to establish the voidness of self-established true existence.

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