Emptiness in Full Bloom
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Understanding Emptiness
IntellectuallyMatterMathSkandhas
As PracticeAs Enlightenment
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Types of Emptiness
Insensate Emptiness
Annihilation Analyzed Dharmas
Bodily Dharma True Emptiness
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Intellectually: Matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVlEDvbc5q8
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Intellectually: Matter
Matter = Space
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Intellectually: Math
Shunyata:puffed up, hollow, empty,
suggestive of potentiality
With zero,Everything is possible
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Intellectually: Math
0 (+1, -1), (+2, -2) . . .
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Empty Set:A Set Containing No Elements
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Cardinality of Zero
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Something
from
Nothing
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Intellectually: Skandhas
Form Feeling
Cognition Formation Consciousness
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Intellectually: Skandhas
Not the Self
SubjectObject
Perception(mental impression)
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Emptiness As Practice
Moment by moment
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Emptiness As Practice
Self = Other
D 't th t I ill d t t
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Don't say that I will depart tomorrow --even today I am still arriving.
Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest,to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope.The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river.And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.I am the frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog.I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.
And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate.And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands.
And I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.
My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names,so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names,so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Sensory experience= Mental experience
Mirroring
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Dull Non-Duality
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7262997/
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Emptiness as Enlightenment
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Master Shen Xiu
The Body is a Bodhi TreeThe mind like a bright mirror standTime and again brush it cleanAnd let no dust alight
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Master Hui Neng
Originally Bodhi has no tree,
The bright mirror has no stand,Originally there was not a thing,Where does dust alight?
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Some have too much and yet do crave.
I have little and seek no more,They are but poor though more they have.
And I am rich with little store.
They poor, I rich.They beg, I give.
They lack, I have.They pine, I live.
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