The teaching of emptiness is often considered to be an innovation of Nagarjuna or of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. However this important teaching had been expounded by the Buddha many centuries before, but has become obscured. But how? (Rebroadcast 1/12/2024, originally podcast 7/16/2021)
A history of emptiness
Ignorace: what to do about it
Ignorance: the enabler of the chain
Formations: the workings of karma
Formations: the building blocks of the world
Cognizance: the magic show
Cognizance: the whirlpool that constructs the world
Name and Appearance: negotiating the world
Name and appearance: the objects of the world
The sixfold sphere: letting go of the eye
The sixfold sphere: an epistemic account of contact
Contact: questioning substantial things
Contact: subject and object
Feeling: busy mind, serene mind
Feeling: stimulus or reward?
Craving: seeking, growth and cessation
Craving: the origin of suffering
Appropriation: letting go
Appropriation: developing a personal footprint
Becoming: growing a world
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