Form is empty - is it? | Buddhist Centre Features

An online weekend retreat exploring Suññata with Tejananda

Friday 29th Nov - Sunday 1st Dec

Earlier this year we explored how the Buddha's teaching in the Shorter Suññata Sutta establishes emptiness in a very direct and experiential way, by noticing absence. Experience is empty of whatever isn't right here in experience now. This seems obvious, but we delude ourselves into thinking that although something isn't 'here', it's still 'there' in some way, even when we don't experience it.

Say you've been somewhere away from home (even just out shopping) - where is that place in experience now? Quite simply, it's nowhere, other than in our imagination. This is not suggesting that the place 'doesn't exist', it's about directly knowing the distinction between what is experienced and what is imagined or mentally constructed. Once we gain clarity around this, the liberating path of insight (prajñā) can unfold.

We'll use the Buddha's method to explore areas of our experience of bodily form, space and consciousness - gaining clarity about what is actual experience, what is imagined or constructed and what the emptiness teachings are actually pointing to.

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Retreat starts Friday 29 Nov on the 3rd session, and ends on Sunday 1st Dec on the second session.

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