- Emptiness and the Skillful Self in Buddhism
Buddhist notions of non-self open up possibilities for reforming who we are in more skillful ways. Those are the heart of Buddhist practice. But how does it work?
- What if there Were a Permanent Self? The Three Pointed Emptiness in Early Buddhism
What if there were something permanent and unchanging we could possess? Are there conceptions of a self, or beliefs that we should look to as permanent sources of happiness? We'll look at an early discourse of the Buddha that answers…
- Emptiness in Buddhism: Early Practice
Did you know there was an early Buddhist emptiness practice? We'll discuss the deep and subtle meditative practice known as the "liberation of mind by emptiness". We'll look at its stages as well as at a section that seems to have been…
- Emptiness in Buddhism: Early Doctrine and Development
What is the doctrine of emptiness in Buddhism? We'll look at its early history to see how the notion of emptiness may have began in response to ideas of the day, how it matured, and how it developed in later Buddhist dharma.