The Centrality of Emptiness

Vrula: I think this is another discovery of one finds in your book, which is the centrality of emptiness. The Buddha's meditation's instructions to his son are like space - a risen, agreeable, and disagreeable contacts will not invade your mind and remain. We cling to things that we then build a new self around and establish a new sense of self in this new moment. So there's this idea of people, you know, a kind of enlightenment or bust attitude that the rewards are at the end of the path. And yet you write about this shift in perspective that really changes that notion for me.