Emptiness

An uncommon explanation of the four noble truths as what Buddha taught to counter two sets of reversed, mistaken views.

According to the Sautrantika tenet system, there are seven ways of knowing an object. To understand the seven in more detail, we first need to know what a way of knowing (“lorig” in Tibetan) is.

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

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

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.

Aryadeva’s treatise discusses how to build up the positive potential for understanding voidness and how to gain correct cognition of the deepest truth.

With a correct understanding of voidness and dependent arising, we will avoid the two extremes of absolutism and nihilism, and then be best able to deal with the complexities of life.

We need to know the basis, the conventional “me,” that does exist – then the false “me” that we are projecting on it, and then the negation and total absence of that impossible “me.”

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.

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.