That's why i believe in Buddhism. It is not about blind faith upon creator god. It is about the ultimate reality of nature. Just we are ignorance about this ultimate truth. Buddha was find out the truth. Greatest teacher of my life lord "Buddha".
Just started watching. THIS was suggested to me by one of the members of my sangha. But without explanation. So, I am ready for this (I already accept a lot of the concept, even from a scientific perspective). Let's go!
This video was good. Seems like the outline was taken from the UA-cam channel Seeker to Seeker’s video on emptiness. Check that out if you haven’t seen it
Yea in Seeker to Seeker’s video he even says he will break it down in 5 sections, and says that it is not traditionally taught that way. And here this video even uses the same 5 chapters that Seeker to Seeker created to explain his video
This video provides such a clear and profound explanation of 'Emptiness' in Buddhism. I love how it’s presented not just as a philosophical concept but as a practical path to freedom from suffering. Thank you for sharing this wisdom! 🙏 Looking forward to more videos on similar topics in the future.
WOW! Just noticed exactly what is meant by "Emptiness." Nothing stands alone, everything is dependent upon other things. It's like links of a chain each one connected to each other. Awesome wisdom and insight!
As well as we may be able to explain sunyata, we are still attached, still controlled by o our emotions/feelings and still delusional/ignorant. Practice is still illusionary. The simple reason is that we are still impure. Our kilesas are still lying dormant in us. The moment the right conditions arises, we become attached, angry and ignorant. Is there a way out? The only way is for a great master, the Buddha to appear and guide & help us out of this dilemma. The next Buddha is Metteyya.
@@tonytube9211Jnana will bring a person to help understand the vrittis. Patanjali's yoga sutras how to handle this body /mind complex. I overcame fear of strangers (a past vritti) though it pulled me away from "the world " for higher learning "self realization "
It was his repeated questioning and ceaseless search. He pursued his thoughts with sheer logic. Everything that we see and feel is a Russian egg. Asimov: Random protocols combining to form unpredictable sequences That applies to life and inanimate things. This druves us to the conclusion that everything is co-created.
Buddha learned about life when he saw a mongo tree. He saw life through meditation and taught the world. Most follow the worldly life that ended emptiness. Billionaires, wealth, and frame are emptiness. Buddha is the greatest teacher in the universe.
Absolutely spot on. This is who we really are. Everything in the world of appearances is an ‘overlay’. This is the supreme value of meditation. When we discover Silence, we discover the Awareness of who we truly are. We are That.
But we have to remember that while we are "empty" of a self, this does not mean that we are nothing. This mind in its essence has always been the perfect buddha-nature, like a perfect mirror reflecting all experience. And this essence of the mind's nature may be covered over by ignorance, but the mind's true nature can never be altered by ignorance, it can never be anything more and less than that of a realized buddha. I did like that you said that Buddhists may love the concepts and then get stuck in thinking they are superior because of their lovely concepts. It is a real danger and The Buddha spoke about how Buddhism would disappear because of it.
Real Buddhist won't have such thought..... superior than others. While I think its the smartest to discover this, true nature of reality, of all phenomena. For the Buddhist main goal is to enlightenment. Therefore, we can't posses any of these 5 poisons..... Attachment, Aversion, Ignorance, Pride and Jealousy....... and Bodhicitta is the most important quality.
While abrahamic religions are based on belief. Buddhism is based on EXPERIENCE. Buddhists are less likely to get stuck in concepts. Unlike the abrahamics who survive on concepts.
Matt, I am impressed! Thanks for making these videos. I'm a Buddhist for quite some time and have studied Madhyamaka intensly. The video conveys the concept very well. I'd like to add, that the term "emptiness" may sometimes be misleading. In Zen it is also called "fullness". Due to the fact, that the essence of phenomenon is free from inherent existence, everything can appear. Things can change, develop, transform. If it were not so, nothing new could appear. So it's due to emptiness, that the myriad phenomenon can arise as appearance. May all sentient beings realize their true nature and ultimate buddhahood swiftly! Matt, would you be willing to make these videos availaible in other languages as well? I could translate these to German and Spanish.
Fantastic! Beautiful, profound, and poignant! "Good, good, O son of noble family; thus it is, O son of noble family, thus it is." Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form. [Heart Sutra] ॐ ~
In Buddhism, "emptiness" (or "sunyata" in Sanskrit and "shunyata" in Pali) means that everything is empty of a separate self ¹ ². It means that everything in the universe inter-are and that form is empty of a separate self, but full of everything in the cosmos ¹. Here are some key points to consider ¹: - Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, an awakened being who has transcended fear, found the five skandhas (or five heaps or five aggregates) empty. - The five skandhas are the five elements that comprise a human being: the river of form (or our bodies), the river of feelings, the river of perceptions, the river of mental formations and the river of consciousness. - The five skandhas are empty of a separate self, meaning that none of these five rivers can exist by itself alone. - Each of the five skandhas has to be made by the other four, and they have to coexist with one another. - Everything in the universe is like the five skandhas, and that nothing can exist independently. - Everything has emptiness as its own nature, and that is why everything can be.
Nice job; love it. Worth watching. May I propose a condensed summary of Madhyamaka: It is about realizing our inconceivable true nature, the true nature of all dharmas. It is about realizing the Inseparability / Interdependence / Union of the Two Truths about the three spheres of any relation / action: ex. i) subject / actor / experiencer / perceiver / knower / consciousness / cause / opposite-1, ii) relation / action / experience / perception / cognition / causality, iii) object / result / experienced / perceived / known / world / opposite-2 / effect. These three spheres, all apparent opposites, and all phenomena, are always inseparable / dependently co-arisen / interdependent / co-evolving, thus all empty of inherent existence / never absolute (and vice versa), merely labeled / imputed / imagined by the mind in dependence of its past experiences / conditioning / karma (individual & collective). They are not really existent, not completely non-existent, not both together, not neither. Not different / separate / multiple / dual, not identical / united / one / non-dual, not both together, not neither, and there is no fifth. Not good / pure / true, not bad / impure / false, not both together, not neither. Not ‘this’, not non ‘this’, not both together, not neither, for whatever ‘this’ is. Meaning, these three spheres, all apparent opposites, and all phenomena, are indescribable / inconceivable, beyond all dualistic conceptual proliferation, beyond our dualistic thinking, beyond all views, beyond all actions / conditioning / karma. We cannot say what they are, just what they are not, using tools like the tetralemma. Ultimately, we have to directly realize / experience their true nature & dynamic, without using our dualistic concepts, our conditioning / karma. Meanwhile, it is not about developing better discrimination / differentiation, not about accepting / seeking them as they appear to be, not about rejecting / abandoning them completely. It is about adopting the Middle Way free from all extremes, views or activities, about everything, about all dualities. We can use these concepts as mere temporary imperfect tools / adapted skillful means, but never grasp them as absolute, never become slaves to them. Meanwhile, we may as well perceive everything as primordially equal / pure / perfect / divine / Buddha-nature / One / Brahman / Pure Consciousness / Primordial Awareness / Unified Field ... All dualities / triads… are like that. Even the duality of the two truths themselves, dependent origination and emptiness, are like that. Even movement and stillness / silence. Even Samsara and Nirvana. Even the Buddha-nature and Emptiness. Even the duality ordinary / relative / apparent vs Absolute / Ground / Basis / Source / God / Consciousness. No exception at all in Madhyamaka. We can call this Union of apparent opposites, or non-duality, or Oneness; but we should not grasp at these concepts either. They are mere temporary imperfect adapted skilful means, conventional truths, mere fingers pointing at the moon, not the moon itself.
When something exist it's counter part also come to existence. For example, left - right, up - down, day - night, birth - death, cold - hot etc.. if you remove one, it's counter part also ceased to exist. Think about a world there is no left side, then you will never talk about its counter part (right side). Same thing can be applied to things in your mind, happiness - sadness, love - hate, past - future. If you are a person that looking for happiness, that means you are in sadness. In fact they are the same thing because one cannot exist without the other. If you can let go both of them your mind will be in a neutral state which is called Niravana. When you realized this dualism, you mind is in middle path(third state), and you stop arguing or fighting for one side. Most important part is how you make your mind neutralized, in fact it's when you realized that sadness - happiness, love - hate are the same thing, because when something disappear and it counter part ceased to exist, it means they are the same thing. Think about a world where there is no sadness then it will be world where we never talk about happiness.
Excellent video, I always imagine emptiness as the part in the heart sutra that says no eyes ears nose or tongue. In short summary it's saying we are so much more, but also we are nothing without all of those things but we are still everything because we are interdependent on nature, other people and society to exist. Thanks for this video👍
thank you ...I've struggled with the concept of emptiness ..btw where did the awesome graphics for the video come from, they would make an amazing desktop or screensaver!
i tried being independent in seeking, i present what i figured 'nirvana is as if you were dead while being alive' you have perception and can make choices - a characteristic of sentient thus living things but you also are numb to perception as if you didnt have it so you dont form preferences - a characteristic of all non-sentient things, usually dead matter you are alive and sentient but you just can ignore all derivatives of sencience like forming a preference as if you werent sentient, getting close to be unable to care what happens so unable to perceive suffering the boundary of life and death ultimately is an illusion too but for the hilarity of the quote above i think its accurate enough
Thank you so much for teaching the concept of emptiness may this good karma be a cause for you to attain the supreame bliss of nibbana triple gem bless you✨🙏❤️
The hard problem of consciousness: how does subjective experience arise out of devoid of experience matter? Did Budha considered awareness fundamental to reality, therefore no hard problem?
This is core nondualism of Upanishads. There is only consciousness as presence as ISNESS , Everything everyone rise within it and made of it, and are inherently Empty and Blank. All illusions arise because of localisation and individuation of this consciousness, the Brahma. Subject object and experience connecting them is just one way of consciousness exploring itself to know itself in finer details of low frequency material and more dense aspects of itself. Outside our frequency wavelength ISNESS has other ways and methods of learning and self discovery. Very illuminating attempt. Shoonya is zero blank empty and devoid of any form name or defining aspersions.
Very good video, but I would respectfully suggest that you slow down a bit next time. Some pauses after sentences allow the message to sink in, and give the words much more power.
Worthwhile dharma truth is offered, however the visuals and audio presentation style are clearly oriented to mass commercial media. Perhaps that is beneficial for many viewers/consumers come from. I need to look away and just listen as the visuals are merely distractions which l don't relate to, artificial in my perspective. Thanks for the message regardless.
Emptiness : Observe a tree. It is made of water,sun soil,air...nothing else..is there some self elements of tree...NO...So in reality there is no tree...its just a temporary formation of 4 elements.Now Observe yourself !!
Most of the teaching always put more emphasis on form is empty but rarely on when emptiness became form. One said it's better to think that the material one is real than what that is in our mind(concept, idea, doctrine, etc) it's the real one.
Every atom comes and goes because of causes and conditions, all the while, being interdependently interconnected, inseparably one, having come from the same source, lives and ages in the same source, becomes ill and dies in the same source, and will inevitably dissolve back to the same source. 😇🙏
This existence, that we believe is real including these 'meat' bodies, is empty in the sense of being an illusion that we have reified into some kind of concrete reality. The Buddha is saying don't attach to what is empty being a mere illusion. When Siddhartha became a Buddha it was not through emptiness but it was by seeing ultimate reality which transcended this illusory world. Human knowledge, through its ignorance of the really real, is confined to samvrti-satya, i.e., to the sphere of phenomenal reality. Such knowledge is unable to grasp nourmenal reality (paramartha-satya). Phenomenal reality is svabhava-shunya, i.e., devoid of self-existence. The noumenal reality is prapañca-shunya, i.e., devoid of plurality. The Buddha taught two truths. The first is phenomenal truth and the second is noumenal truth. Noumenal truth is peaceful, devoid of plurality, indeterminate, and one.
"Form is Emptiness Emptiness is Form" HEART Sutra (Buddhism) ENERGY is "Emptiness" or Formless. E = MC2 (Albert Einstein). Form is Energy which materializes into Form (Higgs Boson Particle). Our Consciousness (Thoughts, Feelings, & Perceptions) is Energy which is Formless or “Empty”. Our Physical Body is Form which is created from Energy which is Formless or “Empty”. Form is just a manifestation of Energy. In fact the entire Universe is a manifestation of ENERGY in both Form (Stars, Planets, Life Forms, et cetera) and Formless (Heat, Light, Radiation, Sound, & Consciousness). 😃🙏
red flags at the introduction: "concept of emptiness", "meaning of emptiness", "emptiness as an experience", "Buddhist Philosophy". the rest is actually not too bad, but still not even close to Diamond Sutra. Shunyata is not something you can explain or even experience. you have to become one, then you know what it is, otherwise it is just... well, words. Lamps onto ourselves? no. light onto ourselves. that is a big big difference. Even if you are operating in the realm of words (the only realm it seems), words matter. so choose them wisely next time.
Okay let me point out how pedantic and pointless your red flags are buddhist philosophy is a actual term "meaning of emptiness" is trying to describe the meaning of a word a problem for you now that emptiness can't be experienced how is it then that it is a essentially realization of emptiness is important to the buddhist veiw like my gosh you are pedantic as hell
Cool video but too bad it doesn't really talk about the emptiness of consciousness and awareness itself. Probably the strongest illusion of them all? And in my view the most important one. Almost everyone I've heard talking about emptiness misses this. Although I'm only exposed to western and English speaking communicators.
Not really understanding the first step. With the Musician, the instrument, and the sound the independent self making it all happen is the musician as everything else lacks sentience.
The example is for you the person hearing it. We say “I hear the music.” But it was an automatic process. *I* didn’t do anything. Something happened, caused something else to happen, caused something else to happen. Sound wave vibrates bones, creates an action potential in a neuron, and consciousness is the awareness of the event. But you and I didn’t do anything. But we tell ourselves we hear the music. Practice observing and refrain from saying “I did this..this happened to me,” and observe “there was a sound.” No I or you needed. “I hear a bird,” becomes “a bird is chirping.”
Sunyata (emptiness) is not a Buddhist teaching. Anatta (non selft; no soul) is. Anatta is part of the 3 Marks of Existence was taught during the life of the Buddha. Sunyata concept was introduced after his death through Mayahana school long after his Parinibbana.
Well to be honest Anybody who is helped by an explanation is a good thing, so that's a good thing. But five levels of emptiness...? That's just emptiness on top of emptiness times five, that's ridiculous. The images and the graphics that you use behind your talk are beautiful and impressive but from my personal perspective you just used a lot of words to describe emptiness. I think this could be refined. To say that the observed and the Observer both do not exist this is ridiculous. Who observes the nothingness. To say that there is nothingness without observation is to say that you do not exist at all that the origin of creation does not exist the self the eternal self does not exist. There is so much that is being missed in this explanation. Emptiness reveals the truth of the eternal Observer who observes all things at all times and is completely full and overflowing of every second in an eternal timescape but exists in a transient state Beyond it because of its emptiness but that doesn't mean that it is void, it's not void it's full and it's ever present with possibilities and potentials and yet it is removed by remaining in the ever-present center. To overcome the mind, to overcome the illusion, one needs to cultivate absolute stillness in body and mind and thought. Therefore it is a cultivation and a practice and a discipline that is required. Do not be misled that all is an illusion and therefore nothing needs to be undertaken. The action required when one finds oneself in the midst of illusion is to realize that the illusion comes from the spinning of the mind and the anecdote is to sit in stillness in the center. This is challenging therefore practice makes perfect.
The character is own of God 💯. The incarnation of the God 💯. ALL the prophetic The divine time is over before five hundred years ago. Full lights moon one night Divine time running now by judgement of the God 💯. DIVINE time accept judge didn't of God 💯. So need Divine time judgment of God of all the humans.
In simple words life is a simulation you are the programmer 😅the purpose is to enjoy the simulation of life eternally, the ultimate video game experience 😅😅😅
That's why i believe in Buddhism. It is not about blind faith upon creator god. It is about the ultimate reality of nature. Just we are ignorance about this ultimate truth. Buddha was find out the truth. Greatest teacher of my life lord "Buddha".
The ultimate nature of “Reality” is ENERGY which is Formless or “Empty”.
😃🙏
Just started watching. THIS was suggested to me by one of the members of my sangha. But without explanation. So, I am ready for this (I already accept a lot of the concept, even from a scientific perspective).
Let's go!
This is one of the best explanation of Sunyata! As a Buddhist, I am very proud and grateful for your explanation for all people. 🙏🏽🫶🏼🤟🏻🤲🏼
I like your comment, it got me to listen to the video instead of wander on. 🩵
Yeah, too bad it was stolen from "Seeker to seek"
This video was good. Seems like the outline was taken from the UA-cam channel Seeker to Seeker’s video on emptiness. Check that out if you haven’t seen it
Yea in Seeker to Seeker’s video he even says he will break it down in 5 sections, and says that it is not traditionally taught that way. And here this video even uses the same 5 chapters that Seeker to Seeker created to explain his video
This video provides such a clear and profound explanation of 'Emptiness' in Buddhism. I love how it’s presented not just as a philosophical concept but as a practical path to freedom from suffering. Thank you for sharing this wisdom! 🙏 Looking forward to more videos on similar topics in the future.
WOW! Just noticed exactly what is meant by "Emptiness." Nothing stands alone, everything is dependent upon other things. It's like links of a chain each one connected to each other. Awesome wisdom and insight!
As well as we may be able to explain sunyata, we are still attached, still controlled by o our emotions/feelings and still delusional/ignorant. Practice is still illusionary. The simple reason is that we are still impure. Our kilesas are still lying dormant in us. The moment the right conditions arises, we become attached, angry and ignorant. Is there a way out? The only way is for a great master, the Buddha to appear and guide & help us out of this dilemma. The next Buddha is Metteyya.
@@tonytube9211who helped The Buddha out of his dilemma before he woke up?
@@tonytube9211Jnana will bring a person to help understand the vrittis. Patanjali's yoga sutras how to handle this body /mind complex. I overcame fear of strangers (a past vritti) though it pulled me away from "the world " for higher learning "self realization "
It was his repeated questioning and ceaseless search. He pursued his thoughts with sheer logic.
Everything that we see and feel is a Russian egg.
Asimov: Random protocols combining to form unpredictable sequences
That applies to life and inanimate things. This druves us to the conclusion that everything is co-created.
@GD-tn3ez He do it himself. That why we call him Buddha. Any self-awaken entity is called Buddha.
Buddha learned about life when he saw a mongo tree. He saw life through meditation and taught the world. Most follow the worldly life that ended emptiness. Billionaires, wealth, and frame are emptiness. Buddha is the greatest teacher in the universe.
Absolutely spot on. This is who we really are. Everything in the world of appearances is an ‘overlay’. This is the supreme value of meditation. When we discover Silence, we discover the Awareness of who we truly are. We are That.
false "I" ego causes mayhem in the world my way! my ideal, me ,me, me, mine,mine ,mine!
I'm already applying this on my day to day life. This idea is a real game changer. Thanks a lot. Salamun alaikum.
Fantastic. Great explanations (and analogies). Thanks for making this video.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. great video, much appreciated!
This needs to be translated into an art form where a form is emptiness itself and vice versa
emptiness is not other than form.
Excellent and Awesomeness
Thank you for this most Excellent wisdom! May it go Viral ❤
But we have to remember that while we are "empty" of a self, this does not mean that we are nothing. This mind in its essence has always been the perfect buddha-nature, like a perfect mirror reflecting all experience. And this essence of the mind's nature may be covered over by ignorance, but the mind's true nature can never be altered by ignorance, it can never be anything more and less than that of a realized buddha.
I did like that you said that Buddhists may love the concepts and then get stuck in thinking they are superior because of their lovely concepts. It is a real danger and The Buddha spoke about how Buddhism would disappear because of it.
Real Buddhist won't have such thought..... superior than others. While I think its the smartest to discover this, true nature of reality, of all phenomena.
For the Buddhist main goal is to enlightenment. Therefore, we can't posses any of these 5 poisons..... Attachment, Aversion, Ignorance, Pride and Jealousy....... and Bodhicitta is the most important quality.
Well said my friend!
While abrahamic religions are based on belief. Buddhism is based on EXPERIENCE. Buddhists are less likely to get stuck in concepts.
Unlike the abrahamics who survive on concepts.
Awesome.
Matt, I am impressed! Thanks for making these videos. I'm a Buddhist for quite some time and have studied Madhyamaka intensly. The video conveys the concept very well.
I'd like to add, that the term "emptiness" may sometimes be misleading. In Zen it is also called "fullness". Due to the fact, that the essence of phenomenon is free from inherent existence, everything can appear. Things can change, develop, transform. If it were not so, nothing new could appear. So it's due to emptiness, that the myriad phenomenon can arise as appearance. May all sentient beings realize their true nature and ultimate buddhahood swiftly!
Matt, would you be willing to make these videos availaible in other languages as well? I could translate these to German and Spanish.
I heard once that the late Vietnames Monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, used the term "inter-being" as a translation for shunyata. Nice
Great work! thank you very much from Chile ;)
Great understanding of emptiness ...
Wonderful video!🙏
Excellent way of explaining
Thank you so much sir ❤
Loved this, there is no self, that is just a misconception :) this is true
Fantastic! Beautiful, profound, and poignant!
"Good, good, O son of noble family; thus it is, O son of noble family, thus it is."
Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form. [Heart Sutra]
ॐ ~
Salute you for sharing such insightful wisdoms shared by Buddha
You aren't bothered that the message is couched in some attempt to capture your attention for money?
@@cmgordon12345 learn to look at world beyond perception which is deceptive in nature
Ever-changing phenomenon (shunyata) is witnessed… by the unchanging consciousness/awareness (Buddha nature).
And there the problem is right here
In Buddhism, "emptiness" (or "sunyata" in Sanskrit and "shunyata" in Pali) means that everything is empty of a separate self ¹ ². It means that everything in the universe inter-are and that form is empty of a separate self, but full of everything in the cosmos ¹. Here are some key points to consider ¹:
- Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, an awakened being who has transcended fear, found the five skandhas (or five heaps or five aggregates) empty.
- The five skandhas are the five elements that comprise a human being: the river of form (or our bodies), the river of feelings, the river of perceptions, the river of mental formations and the river of consciousness.
- The five skandhas are empty of a separate self, meaning that none of these five rivers can exist by itself alone.
- Each of the five skandhas has to be made by the other four, and they have to coexist with one another.
- Everything in the universe is like the five skandhas, and that nothing can exist independently.
- Everything has emptiness as its own nature, and that is why everything can be.
Clear teaching!
Nice job; love it. Worth watching. May I propose a condensed summary of Madhyamaka: It is about realizing our inconceivable true nature, the true nature of all dharmas. It is about realizing the Inseparability / Interdependence / Union of the Two Truths about the three spheres of any relation / action: ex. i) subject / actor / experiencer / perceiver / knower / consciousness / cause / opposite-1, ii) relation / action / experience / perception / cognition / causality, iii) object / result / experienced / perceived / known / world / opposite-2 / effect. These three spheres, all apparent opposites, and all phenomena, are always inseparable / dependently co-arisen / interdependent / co-evolving, thus all empty of inherent existence / never absolute (and vice versa), merely labeled / imputed / imagined by the mind in dependence of its past experiences / conditioning / karma (individual & collective). They are not really existent, not completely non-existent, not both together, not neither. Not different / separate / multiple / dual, not identical / united / one / non-dual, not both together, not neither, and there is no fifth. Not good / pure / true, not bad / impure / false, not both together, not neither. Not ‘this’, not non ‘this’, not both together, not neither, for whatever ‘this’ is. Meaning, these three spheres, all apparent opposites, and all phenomena, are indescribable / inconceivable, beyond all dualistic conceptual proliferation, beyond our dualistic thinking, beyond all views, beyond all actions / conditioning / karma. We cannot say what they are, just what they are not, using tools like the tetralemma. Ultimately, we have to directly realize / experience their true nature & dynamic, without using our dualistic concepts, our conditioning / karma. Meanwhile, it is not about developing better discrimination / differentiation, not about accepting / seeking them as they appear to be, not about rejecting / abandoning them completely. It is about adopting the Middle Way free from all extremes, views or activities, about everything, about all dualities. We can use these concepts as mere temporary imperfect tools / adapted skillful means, but never grasp them as absolute, never become slaves to them. Meanwhile, we may as well perceive everything as primordially equal / pure / perfect / divine / Buddha-nature / One / Brahman / Pure Consciousness / Primordial Awareness / Unified Field ... All dualities / triads… are like that. Even the duality of the two truths themselves, dependent origination and emptiness, are like that. Even movement and stillness / silence. Even Samsara and Nirvana. Even the Buddha-nature and Emptiness. Even the duality ordinary / relative / apparent vs Absolute / Ground / Basis / Source / God / Consciousness. No exception at all in Madhyamaka. We can call this Union of apparent opposites, or non-duality, or Oneness; but we should not grasp at these concepts either. They are mere temporary imperfect adapted skilful means, conventional truths, mere fingers pointing at the moon, not the moon itself.
May I know what software was used to generate this art style, really amazing visuals. Great Video.
Thank you for sharing knowledge, only true knowledge can make us proper human being 💙🙏💙🙏💙
Wisdom and Truth = Peace.
This was the second of your videos that I have discovered on here. Thank you again.
Enlightening ... Much Love ❤
Subjects and objects are just actions that continue to exist between points of emptiness.
Superb teaching ....it brings to ' mind '....choiceless awareness
Thank you. Appreciate this work.
Really good summary, I have already shared this with others.
Emptiness explains the dependent nature of all meterial things ,🙏☸️💐
When something exist it's counter part also come to existence. For example, left - right, up - down, day - night, birth - death, cold - hot etc.. if you remove one, it's counter part also ceased to exist. Think about a world there is no left side, then you will never talk about its counter part (right side). Same thing can be applied to things in your mind, happiness - sadness, love - hate, past - future. If you are a person that looking for happiness, that means you are in sadness. In fact they are the same thing because one cannot exist without the other. If you can let go both of them your mind will be in a neutral state which is called Niravana. When you realized this dualism, you mind is in middle path(third state), and you stop arguing or fighting for one side.
Most important part is how you make your mind neutralized, in fact it's when you realized that sadness - happiness, love - hate are the same thing, because when something disappear and it counter part ceased to exist, it means they are the same thing. Think about a world where there is no sadness then it will be world where we never talk about happiness.
Namo Buddhay 🙏🙏🙏
Awesome
Excellent video, I always imagine emptiness as the part in the heart sutra that says no eyes ears nose or tongue. In short summary it's saying we are so much more, but also we are nothing without all of those things but we are still everything because we are interdependent on nature, other people and society to exist.
Thanks for this video👍
fantastic images. Where can i find them?
Thank you! Incredible!
Actually shunyata we call it as shunywad was devloped by nagaarjun a great monk who came later than buddha and one of the greatest Indian philosopher
Thank you thank you
Congratulations to u
thank you ...I've struggled with the concept of emptiness ..btw where did the awesome graphics for the video come from, they would make an amazing desktop or screensaver!
There's no chapter 4?
I'll need to watch this a few times to understand the message. The animation was too beautiful to place my attention on the words.
i tried being independent in seeking, i present what i figured
'nirvana is as if you were dead while being alive'
you have perception and can make choices - a characteristic of sentient thus living things
but you also are numb to perception as if you didnt have it so you dont form preferences - a characteristic of all non-sentient things, usually dead matter
you are alive and sentient but you just can ignore all derivatives of sencience like forming a preference as if you werent sentient, getting close to be unable to care what happens so unable to perceive suffering
the boundary of life and death ultimately is an illusion too but for the hilarity of the quote above i think its accurate enough
Good man, good work, very good
JHANA. ❤
Did I miss chapter 4 ?
we need more teaching from nagarjuna and chandrakirti
I want to learn more of this
Very good work
Dark Matter seems empty to us, but hidden/parallel worlds exist in Dark Matter. 🙏🧡
We are the borg.
Thank you so much for teaching the concept of emptiness may this good karma be a cause for you to attain the supreame bliss of nibbana triple gem bless you✨🙏❤️
Um but why the ominous, doom & gloom music in the background ?
Captivating thoughts and the visuals complement them nicely! Can I know about the artwork? I'm guessing AI? sublime!
The hard problem of consciousness: how does subjective experience arise out of devoid of experience matter? Did Budha considered awareness fundamental to reality, therefore no hard problem?
Thank you. I'd love to see a refutation of self-help books from the perspective of the non-self or nonduality - the non-self help book
@jbeestonian read "The way of the Bodhisattva" Bodhcaryavitara by Shantideva
This is core nondualism of Upanishads.
There is only consciousness as presence as ISNESS ,
Everything everyone rise within it and made of it, and are inherently Empty and Blank.
All illusions arise because of localisation and individuation of this consciousness, the Brahma.
Subject object and experience connecting them is just one way of consciousness exploring itself to know itself in finer details of low frequency material and more dense aspects of itself.
Outside our frequency wavelength ISNESS has other ways and methods of learning and self discovery.
Very illuminating attempt.
Shoonya is zero blank empty and devoid of any form name or defining aspersions.
Very good video, but I would respectfully suggest that you slow down a bit next time. Some pauses after sentences allow the message to sink in, and give the words much more power.
Nice graphics.
Namo Buddhaya, 🙏🙏🙏
Nothing matters. Just live.
Everything matter....... War, femine, Plague, global warming, flood...... countless more etc.
Worthwhile dharma truth is offered, however the visuals and audio presentation style are clearly oriented to mass commercial media. Perhaps that is beneficial for many viewers/consumers come from. I need to
look away and just listen as the visuals are merely distractions which l don't relate to, artificial in my perspective. Thanks for the message regardless.
You just find anything to complain about how are the visuals and audiuo and visuals oriented "towards commerical mass media" like what does that mean
Nice explanation ❤, but background music is distrubing
Emptiness : Observe a tree. It is made of water,sun soil,air...nothing else..is there some self elements of tree...NO...So in reality there is no tree...its just a temporary formation of 4 elements.Now Observe yourself !!
Most of the teaching always put more emphasis on form is empty but rarely on when emptiness became form. One said it's better to think that the material one is real than what that is in our mind(concept, idea, doctrine, etc) it's the real one.
rest in present awareness be still close eyes listen to your breathing.
To my knowledge shunyata is the nature which exist at the present moment in mind
Every atom comes and goes because of causes and conditions, all the while, being interdependently interconnected, inseparably one, having come from the same source, lives and ages in the same source, becomes ill and dies in the same source, and will inevitably dissolve back to the same source. 😇🙏
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Sorry problem with soundtracks,, ear pains, 🥴
This existence, that we believe is real including these 'meat' bodies, is empty in the sense of being an illusion that we have reified into some kind of concrete reality. The Buddha is saying don't attach to what is empty being a mere illusion. When Siddhartha became a Buddha it was not through emptiness but it was by seeing ultimate reality which transcended this illusory world.
Human knowledge, through its ignorance of the really real, is confined to samvrti-satya, i.e., to the sphere of phenomenal reality. Such knowledge is unable to grasp nourmenal reality (paramartha-satya). Phenomenal reality is svabhava-shunya, i.e., devoid of self-existence. The noumenal reality is prapañca-shunya, i.e., devoid of plurality. The Buddha taught two truths. The first is phenomenal truth and the second is noumenal truth. Noumenal truth is peaceful, devoid of plurality, indeterminate, and one.
"Form is Emptiness
Emptiness is Form"
HEART Sutra (Buddhism)
ENERGY is "Emptiness" or Formless.
E = MC2 (Albert Einstein).
Form is Energy which materializes into Form (Higgs Boson Particle).
Our Consciousness (Thoughts, Feelings, & Perceptions) is Energy which is Formless or “Empty”.
Our Physical Body is Form which is created from Energy which is Formless or “Empty”.
Form is just a manifestation of Energy.
In fact the entire Universe is a manifestation of ENERGY in both Form (Stars, Planets, Life Forms, et cetera) and Formless (Heat, Light, Radiation, Sound, & Consciousness).
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It is The Void. Constant void that exist before the series of big bang (where light created). It is Void and Dark.
red flags at the introduction: "concept of emptiness", "meaning of emptiness", "emptiness as an experience", "Buddhist Philosophy".
the rest is actually not too bad, but still not even close to Diamond Sutra.
Shunyata is not something you can explain or even experience. you have to become one, then you know what it is, otherwise it is just... well, words.
Lamps onto ourselves? no. light onto ourselves. that is a big big difference. Even if you are operating in the realm of words (the only realm it seems), words matter. so choose them wisely next time.
Okay let me point out how pedantic and pointless your red flags are buddhist philosophy is a actual term "meaning of emptiness" is trying to describe the meaning of a word a problem for you now that emptiness can't be experienced how is it then that it is a essentially realization of emptiness is important to the buddhist veiw like my gosh you are pedantic as hell
The observer and the observed, one cannot exist without the other.
very good but he could point out the emptiness is not a good translation of the sunyata... well done.
Umm emptiness is a valid translation of shunyata
Cool video but too bad it doesn't really talk about the emptiness of consciousness and awareness itself. Probably the strongest illusion of them all? And in my view the most important one. Almost everyone I've heard talking about emptiness misses this. Although I'm only exposed to western and English speaking communicators.
What is the meaning of the term "inherent"? The idea of "essence" in old Greece is no longer valid or interesting.
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Not really understanding the first step. With the Musician, the instrument, and the sound the independent self making it all happen is the musician as everything else lacks sentience.
The example is for you the person hearing it. We say “I hear the music.” But it was an automatic process. *I* didn’t do anything. Something happened, caused something else to happen, caused something else to happen. Sound wave vibrates bones, creates an action potential in a neuron, and consciousness is the awareness of the event. But you and I didn’t do anything. But we tell ourselves we hear the music. Practice observing and refrain from saying “I did this..this happened to me,” and observe “there was a sound.” No I or you needed. “I hear a bird,” becomes “a bird is chirping.”
Sunyata (emptiness) is not a Buddhist teaching. Anatta (non selft; no soul) is.
Anatta is part of the 3 Marks of Existence was taught during the life of the Buddha.
Sunyata concept was introduced after his death through Mayahana school long after his Parinibbana.
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The soup of life
Well to be honest
Anybody who is helped by an explanation is a good thing, so that's a good thing.
But five levels of emptiness...?
That's just emptiness on top of emptiness times five, that's ridiculous.
The images and the graphics that you use behind your talk are beautiful and impressive but from my personal perspective you just used a lot of words to describe emptiness.
I think this could be refined.
To say that the observed and the Observer both do not exist this is ridiculous. Who observes the nothingness. To say that there is nothingness without observation is to say that you do not exist at all that the origin of creation does not exist the self the eternal self does not exist.
There is so much that is being missed in this explanation.
Emptiness reveals the truth of the eternal Observer who observes all things at all times and is completely full and overflowing of every second in an eternal timescape but exists in a transient state Beyond it because of its emptiness but that doesn't mean that it is void, it's not void it's full and it's ever present with possibilities and potentials and yet it is removed by remaining in the ever-present center.
To overcome the mind, to overcome the illusion, one needs to cultivate absolute stillness in body and mind and thought. Therefore it is a cultivation and a practice and a discipline that is required. Do not be misled that all is an illusion and therefore nothing needs to be undertaken. The action required when one finds oneself in the midst of illusion is to realize that the illusion comes from the spinning of the mind and the anecdote is to sit in stillness in the center. This is challenging therefore practice makes perfect.
It sound like AI voice, that is empty
Great Content, but AI voice feels artificial, and not natural
wow... buddha knew about schrodinger's cat wayyyyy before schrodinger - and all he had to do was chill... LMFAO
You literally copied the video that Seeker to Seeker made on no self almost verbatim
The character is own of God 💯. The incarnation of the God 💯.
ALL the prophetic The divine time is over before five hundred years ago. Full lights moon one night Divine time running now by judgement of the God 💯. DIVINE time accept judge didn't of God 💯. So need Divine time judgment of God of all the humans.
In simple words life is a simulation you are the programmer 😅the purpose is to enjoy the simulation of life eternally, the ultimate video game experience 😅😅😅
🇺🇦had the “rug” pulled out long ago_still falling 😂