What is real? A Talk about Emptiness

What is real? Here Doron gives a talk about emptiness and what it means in Buddhism. To understand what does it mean, we need to understand that what we see is mostly tainted by the color of our mind. When we are able to identify when we see reality clearly, and when we project on to reality, making it our personal reality – is a big step toward better communication and a happier life.

We may get attached to the things we see, if we label it through our own perspective. Things we see might change later, or have different nature than we expected. When we think that we know what the things are, and we are not accepting their impermanence, causes us suffering. What we think we know is just a projection of our own mind.

The concept of emptiness according to Buddhism means that things don’t have any inherited existence of their own. We think they are real without remembering that nothing is actually permanent.

More philosophy sessions

If you are interested to discover more deeply the question of existence, please have a look at the video of Doron’s teaching and meditation about Who Am I from the Buddhist perspective.

How does the mind affects our thoughts and emotions? Can we control them? Have a look at Doron’s talk about reducing pain by controling the mind.

A talk about Prakriti, the material nature that all existence is made from and how we are connected to everything.

A Talk About Emptiness

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Blissful Living,

Doron