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105 Ken McLeod on the Magic of Vajrayana

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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The Importance of Emptiness in Eastern Religions

The word empty, even in our own language, we're challenged to find better translations of terms that were overlaid with an excess of meaning by the Christians. Even a word like empty triggers off a lot of associations and concepts for people too. And emptiness works because it stops the mind. Maybe not all minds. Well, it actually stops all minds. Some of them only for a fraction of a second. Mm. The first thing you do is panic. Because now you're not in control. Now there's self reasserts itself. And now you get back into figuring out how to rationalize it, et cetera, et cetra. It works perfectly. I

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