The Heart Sutra
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The Five Scunders of Emptiness
The five scunders are form, feeling, thought, choice, consciousness. This is the Buddhist way of looking in detail at our experience of ourself. And he says that they are no other than emptiness. I kind of wish the Buddhist tradition had never settled on a narrow emptiness. It should have just stuck with the adjective empty. Shunya tarmines emptiness. So, any thing, any way that we conceive of ourself as in some way behind or owning our experience. Here I am, human being, having all these experiences, getting old, getting ill, having emotions and things. But somehow there is a kind of me at the back of it all that is having all
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