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Talk titled: "This Matter of Emptiness", given during the event "New Year Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2011-12-31.
Topics covered: intro/overview, awakening, emptiness: what is emptiness?, critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention', self-views, noticing and practicing with, not-self (anatta), avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion), emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in, emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating, central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking, dukkha: based on belief in reality of things, emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness, emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness, emptiness of time, emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting, emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence, mahayana, views of the path
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Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/15324
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/91637c3c85189814064a4a2a979c9758/f579a2e1/2011_1231NewYearRetreat-ThisMatterofEmptiness.pdf
Talk titled: "This Matter of Emptiness", given during the event "New Year Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2011-12-31.
Topics covered: intro/overview, awakening, emptiness: what is emptiness?, critique: the practice of 'being with' or 'bare attention', self-views, noticing and practicing with, not-self (anatta), avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion), emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in, emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating, central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking, dukkha: based on belief in reality of things, emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness, emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness, emptiness of time, emptiness of fabrication, unfabricated / snake eating its own tail, links melting, emptiness/insight: dependent arising, mutual dependence, mahayana, views of the path
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/15324
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/91637c3c85189814064a4a2a979c9758/f579a2e1/2011_1231NewYearRetreat-ThisMatterofEmptiness.pdf
