
52 - The Sound Of Silence
Secular Buddhism
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Removing Concepts to See Reality
This chapter explores the idea that metaphysical questions only add ideas and concepts, which are irrelevant to Buddhism's aim of removing these in order to see reality as it is. The speaker uses the example of their own experience of mistaking someone's gender to illustrate how concepts can blind us from reality. They then discuss the concept of emptiness in Buddhism, emphasizing that it does not mean non-existence but rather a direct understanding that all things are empty of a separate independent existence.
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