Emptiness

Presentation of the debate between Jetsunpa and Panchen on the topic of true stoppings and voidnesses on the sutra level.

Shabkar presents Nagarjuna and Tsongkhapa’s explanation of how voidness and cause and effect reinforce each other.

A concise lam-rim text on how renunciation, bodhichitta and a correct view of voidness (emptiness) are the three pathways of mind essential for reaching enlightenment through either the sutra or tantra vehicles of practice.

The Fourth Panchen Lama presents the sutra method of mahamudra meditation for gaining shamatha on the conventional nature of the mind and then joined shamatha and vipashyana on the mind’s deepest nature, its voidness (emptiness).

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

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

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.

Meditation on emptiness as the way to develop deepest bodhichitta.

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.