Realizing Emptiness: Madhyamaka Insight Meditation (Paperback)

by Gen Lamrimpa (Author)

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"Not quite 'emptiness made easy' (an impossibility) but it is at least 'emptiness made comprehensible.'" --Dharma Life --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Snow Lion Publications (May 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559391189
• ISBN-13: 978-1559391184
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,846,774 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful for the philosophically inclined, September 7, 2000

By	Barnaby A Thieme (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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.