
emptiness

Certain things you believe about yourself for your entire life. Until, one day, you suddenly realize you’ve missed the main story, and all this time you have been fixated on a half-truth.

A Bird With Two Wings: Flying with the Correct View of Emptiness
Adele Tomlin outlines the key differences between the two views of emptiness, developed by Tibetan Buddhist scholars and masters.

Love as the Expression of Emptiness
Joseph Goldstein describes the benefits and means of letting go of the mind’s habits of attachment and delusion.

Emptiness Explained
The Middle Way of Nagarjuna, one of Mahayana Buddhism’s greatest philosophers

The Invention of Nothing
The history of zero, shunya, and creation ex nihilo

Mindfulness in the Office
Andrew Olendzki explains how a challenging—even overwhelming—job can be an ideal practice ground for insight meditation.

Seeing in the Dark
Zen priest Kurt Spellmeyer discusses cigarettes, samadhi, and “dwelling in emptiness.”

Meditating With Emptiness
In this Dharma Talk, Kurt Spellmeyer—a Zen priest and a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey—discusses the importance of emptiness in Zen Buddhism.

Seeing the Emptiness of Self
When we shift our attention from thoughts to feelings and let identity arise into consciousness, the sense of self diminishes

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