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105 Ken McLeod on the Magic of Vajrayana

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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The Vajrayana and the Other Buddhist Traditions

The emptiness of a thing is also being named as space or spaciousness. What should we call projections onto phenomena with all of the baggage and the reactive patterns that you drag around with you? Some of the other traditions that I've been part of, for example, the shamanic world. They often talk about emptiness as pregnancy. Things arise out of who knows where, whether it's our internal content or just life itself. So I guess what I'm saying, Ken, is I'm fine with emptiness, but I feel that using other terms too can make it, can open it up more - especially if as practice goes on.

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