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18 David Chapman on Stages of Maturation, Dzogchen, and the Future of Buddhism

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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Yyes, Is There Any Kind of Inherent Ground of Being That Will Produce These Qualities?

The idea that, you know, everything should be dissolved into emptiness is understood as a non affirming negation or an absence. The sogcen description of emptiness is as creative potential, which is empty in a certain sense, but is also ing with with possibilities and incipient forms. So if you don't take a nihilistic point of view, the apparent world is both empty and filled with forms.

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