Emptiness

Creativity becomes more open when, with an understanding of emptiness, we avoid making it an ego-trip.

A Gelug presentation of the topic of negations and affirmations, which are crucial in meditating on the negation phenomenon, voidness.

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche provides a deep analysis of the first few verses of the ninth chapter, “Discriminating Awareness,” from “Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior.”

The understanding of voidness does not negate the existence of the conventional “me.” We do exist, but not in the manner of a false “me.” As something imputed on a body and mind, yet unfindable inside them, our conventional “me” is like an illusion.

A brief commentary on Tsongkhapa’s foundational text, providing an overview of renunciation, bodhichitta, and the correct view of voidness.

A question-and-answer session between Dr. Alexander Berzin and Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II on the Prasangika view of voidness according to the Gelugpa and Nyingma assertions.

In “Four Hundred Verse Treatise,” Aryadeva deconstructs the various types of incorrect consideration that we all have, as espoused by the different non-Buddhist Indian schools of philosophy.

The non-conceptual understanding of voidness will stop the tainted aggregates from uncontrollably recurring. 

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.