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#47 - Emptiness, with Jake Orthwein

Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

CHAPTER

Why Should We Care About Emptiness?

Buddhist tradition says that the misimpression of taking phenomena to have inherent or independent existence is the cause of suffering. Without understanding that, without developing deep insight into that fact, we will suffer. And so it's much more a matter of having that understanding develop over time than it is about particular experiences. If you had some mindfulness to bring to bear in that situation, you might undertake as a sort of inquiry, okay, like here's the subset of this temper tantrum that is, you know, the anger coming up in my body.

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