Trained in Buddhist philosophy and mediatation by some of the greatest Gelugpa masters of the twentieth century, the Tibetan contemplative Gen Lamrimpa went on to spend some twenty years in solitary retreat.
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"Not quite 'emptiness made easy' (an impossibility) but it is at least 'emptiness made comprehensible.'" --Dharma Life
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"Written by an genunine Buddhist master, Realizing Emptiness gives us accurate directions to explore the nature of reality. By refuting inherent existence and establishing illusion-like conventionalities, we can come to the correct view of the Middle Way."
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This review is from: Realizing Emptiness: Madhyamaka Insight Meditation (Paperback)
This book is the second collaboration between Gelukba scholar and meditator Gen Lamrimpa and B. Alan Wallace. The first, Calming the Mind, remains the single most helpful book on meditation practice that I have read. While that book focused on stablizing meditation called Calm Abiding, this book focuses on the discursive analytic meditation on empiness known as Special Insight. Also included are two very interesting brief essays on the Nyingma tantric meditation technique Dzog Chen. Realizing Emptiness is a very technical work and will be of particular benefit to those who have some familiarity with Madhyamaka, especially the Gelukba formulation of this philosophy. For those who do this book is an absolute treasure. Realizing Emptiness fills a conspicuous void in the western scholarly discussion of Madhyamaka -- namely, it contains a valuable discussion about how it is that conceptual thought relates to afflictive ignorance. This occupies the first forty pages or so, and the rest of the book goes through the technique and reasonings on emptiness.
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- Buddhism and Science by B. Alan Wallace on page 229
- Buddhism and Science by B. Alan Wallace on page 229
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