Ep. 12: On Emptiness

Into the Mystery

English - October 14, 2020 00:37 - 54 minutes - 100 MB
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The ego avoids the experience of emptiness, preferring instead to cling to its attachments, narratives and sense of forward momentum in time. But emptiness, or what the Buddha called sunyata, is the primordial condition that is required for anything to exist at all. By fearlessly embracing our essence as emptiness, we discover not oblivion, but infinite creativity and freedom.