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How Things Exist: Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and your Smartphone

How Things Exist: Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and your Smartphone

FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment


How Things Exist: Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and your Smartphone

FromA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Jan 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Buddhist view on reality, called emptiness, combines the awe of scientific knowledge with the inner, experiential knowledge that comes from meditation and critical reasoning to arrive at a feeling of interconnectedness. The first in a seven-art series on Buddhism's view of dependent origination looks at how objects exist using the example of that most modern wonder and addiction, our smartphone.Episode 37: How Things ExistSupport the show
Released:
Jan 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment brings the inner science of Buddhist meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. It is a secular approach to meditation that requires no belief beyond our current understanding of science and psychology. Skeptic’s Path meditations are based on powerful analytical meditation techniques that use imagination, emotions, and critical inquiry to probe our inner and outer realities and expand our compassion. These Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques expand on the popular mindfulness approach to meditation to help us better understand our minds from the inside out, and build healthy mental habits that are the true causes of happiness. Each week in discussions, guided meditations and interviews, we explore the vast variety of analytic meditation topics including love, compassion, sleep, tonglen, vipassana, stress, the body, meditation posture, anger, anxiety, addiction, grief, forgiveness, patience, confidence, loneliness, work, relationships, and more.