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Emptiness
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Categories, Conceptual Isolates, Mental Representations
We started our discussion of conceptual cognition last time and I asked you to think of a dog and examine: what is it that appears? Did you think of all dogs in general? Or did a mental picture of a specific dog come to your mind? Answer please. My dog. So, a specific...
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The Nature of Appearances: Gelug Explanation
Refuting Distorted Views about Time, Space and Self
Chapters 9 to 12 Nine: Indicating the Meditations for Refuting Static Functional Phenomena (1) All (functional phenomena) arise as a fact of being the result (of a collection of causes and circumstances). Therefore, there’s no such thing as a static (functional phenomenon...
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Four Hundred Verse Treatise
Gelugpa and Nyingma on Conceptual Meditation on Emptiness
How to Approach the Voidness Cognized in an Arya’s Total Absorption Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II: Now, the biggest debate regarding Prasangika in Sakya, Kagyu, Nyingma and Gelugpa concerns differences in how to approach the voidness that is seen in total absorption. They all...
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Differences between Gelugpa and Nyingma Concerning Emptiness in Prasangika
Dependent Arising: Parts and Mental Labeling
We have been speaking about voidness, which is an absence of impossible ways of existing, and we have been presenting it in a very general way, using the term a bit loosely, so that we can incorporate in our discussion of voidness the various levels of understanding of...
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Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Dependent Arising in Terms of Mental Labeling
Review of the Conventional “Me” Being an Imputation on the Five Aggregates We’ve been speaking about voidness (emptiness) and we have seen that voidness is a negation phenomenon, something that we know by negating or refuting something else. What we are refuting, when we know...
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The Emptiness of the False “Me”
Understanding Emptiness with the Force of Bodhichitta
Review We’ve been discussing the three principal pathways of mind. The first is renunciation, with an added preliminary step helpful for us Westerners, which is turning away from the obsession with immediate gratification to taking interest in what’s going to happen to us...
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Studying the Lam-rim Graded Path
Emptiness of Cause and Effect and the Five Aggregates
First a few more questionsOn a daily basis when you can think about meditation on voidness, how should it be done? How it should be done is that you try to recognize how things appear in this deceiving way and almost like a mantra you could say, “Garbage!” This is garbage what...
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Commentary on “The Heart Sutra” – Dr. Berzin
Misconceptions Based on Belief in a False "Me"
Review We have discussed the source of our problems in life, our ignorance or unawareness concerning behavioral cause and effect and the nature of reality. Either we don’t understand them, or we understand them incorrectly. Because of our unawareness of the nature of reality,...
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Meditation on Emptiness
Background to Aryadeva's Chapters on Emptiness
Introduction We’ve been going through, in summary, the main points of the sixteen chapters of Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Verse Treatise. And we saw that the first eight chapters speak about how to rid ourselves of incorrect views concerning conventional truth. And now we’re ready...
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Overview of “Four Hundred Verse Treatise” – Dr. Berzin
Nothing Findable Establishing “Me” as “Me”
We have been talking about the self or “me,” which is imputed onto the stream of continuity of our aggregate factors that make up each moment of our experience. That conventional “me” is what the word or concept of “me” refers to on the basis of these ever-changing aggregates...
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The Emptiness of the False “Me”
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