Graham Priest: Emptiness, Interdependence, and an Ethics of Care

Wherein Graham provides a very brief sketch of Buddhist metaphysics in classical India and its transit to China, explains the vertiginous psychedelic interpenetration of phenomena, and connects the radical metaphysics of Huayan to a practical ethics of universal care.
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May you be happy!
May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

[@null.och.nix7743]

Lovely stuff to meet the weekend ❤

[@mame0005]

Thanks for this interview. First part was interesting but especially the part of ethics was inspiring and started some ideas. Like karuna=care rather than compassion.

[@FearlessWisdom]

This is awesome, thanks for this!

[@lah6739]

Self nature or no self nature? What is that? Emptiness means all phenomena (including the "self") has no intrinsic nature from its own side; all phenomena exists as interdependent (cause and effect); there is no independent phenomena, such as a self. Emptiness is central to Buddhism, and is a very complicated concept to understand (to not only understand it but to experience it is enlightenment), just to emphasize it's importance and complexity.
I'm sorry, this fellow doesn't understand Buddhist philosophy, and he doesn't understand emptiness even on an intellectual level, as well meaning as his intention may be. It's best to have a learned Mahayana Buddhist explain these concepts at least at the Venerable or Lama level. Otherwise it is way too confusing and may put people off from wanting to explore it more.