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235 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 2: Suchness or Thusness
235 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 2: Suchness or Thusness
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Apr 12, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
What do Buddhists mean by the terms “Suchness” or “Thusness”? Over the millennia, Buddhists have employed many concepts to point us toward Reality-with-a-Capital-R, because awakening to Reality is profoundly liberating. This series of episodes discusses five classic descriptions of Reality. In Episode 229 I talked about the first of these, Emptiness (One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 1: Emptiness). In this episode I explore Suchness, or Thusness.
Released:
Apr 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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