A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
If
the self is only conventionally and fundamentally empty at the core,
then the same goes for our social roles. The streams of identity change
over time; they deepen, dry out, or carve up a different path, but in
the ocean of emptiness, none of those distinctions exist.
Clarifying Dependent Origination With Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Watch
an illuminating teaching from Sri Lankan Theravada monk Bhante Henepola
Gunaratana on one of the Buddha’s most essential yet lesser-discussed
insights into the nature of suffering and liberation.
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