Preparation before Receiving an Empowerment This is an appropriate time for us to have some questions and hopefully some answers. What questions do you have or particular points that you might like me to try to explain? I would like some advice on how to practice Kalachakra at...

Then at that time the Tathagata spoke these verses: In numerous other inconceivable sutras, I have expounded empty phenomena in detail. Hence, here in this supreme sutra empty phenomena I will just briefly explain. As beings of slight intelligence, ignorant, are incapable of...

Why Do We Need to Understand Voidness? I’ve been asked this weekend to speak about the topic of voidness, which is, of course, an advanced topic and a topic that is not terribly easy to understand. In order to understand it, we need to be very well prepared. If we’re not...

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

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.

The assertions of the four Tibetan Buddhist traditions concerning self-voidness and other-voidness and the methods for meditating on them in the context of the clear light subtlest level of mind.

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.

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

With correct understanding of voidness, we also correctly understand the different levels of dependent arising.

The Nonfindability of the Mind  We often read in various presentations about voidness that when we search for the conventional “me” or all these sorts of things, we can’t actually find it. When we search for the mind, we can’t find it. It’s important to understand that...