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3 - Seeing With I's of Wisdom

Secular Buddhism

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Understanding Emptiness in the Eyes of Wisdom

The aim and goal ofa buddhist philosophy is to help us understand that we are seeing life as shadows. And if you can just have that radical shift in perspective, you can come to start seeing things as they really are. This con a seen the world through the eyes of wisdom, the eye of impermanence and the eye of interdependence. So though no individual person or thing has any permanent, fixed identity, everything taken together, is what tiknathan calls inter being. It embraces the positive aspect of emptiness as it is lived by a person of wisdom with its sense of connection, compassion and love.

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