Emptiness

Meditation on emptiness as the way to develop deepest bodhichitta.

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

This profound text discusses how to overcome incorrect consideration of conventional truth and of deepest truth in terms of a vast array of topics.

Emptiness, or voidness, means a total absence of impossible ways of existing. Nothing exists in an impossible way.

Non-conceptual cognition of the total absence of anything corresponding to our misconceptions about how we exist is the true pathway of mind leading to the true cessation of the true causes of all our true sufferings.

To find and implement realistic ways to overcome suffering, we need to deconstruct false appearances and, thereby, see reality.

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

Tsongkhapa was a revolutionary reformer who reinterpreted and clarified many of the key Buddhist teachings, especially concerning the assertions of the Prasangika tenet system concerning voidness, the two truths, the two obscurations and cognition theory.

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