Guy Armstrong: What Do Buddhists Mean When They Talk About Not-Self?
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The Dangers of Emptiness
I think that the wrong use of emptiness is to take it to mean that nothing matters. We just have to open our eyes in any society on the face of the earth and look around at what people are going through. So emptiness is not meant to blind us to the truth of suffering. It's a way to whitewash it or disregard it. And so we have to stay open to the compassionate quality of our heart at every level of deepening in our meditation. Never lose sight of compassion as the other most fundamental quality, you know, along with wisdom.
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