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Ep. 08 - Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant, Ceaselessly Responsive

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Third Aspect of Bodhijitta Is Compassion and Emptiness

In this open unobstructed nature of awareness empty of self we experience the third aspect of the nature of mind. Naturally radiant it has this innate wakeful aware quality. This capacity to know. And the third aspect is ceaselessly responsive. There is a great spontaneity and responsiveness to situations. It's like water flowing down a mountain and it's finding the shortest way. Water will find the shortest way down the mountain depending on the particular topography. So one of the elements of bodhijitta, of ultimate bodhijita, is that compassion or responsiveness is the very activity of emptiness.

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