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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 18: Emptiness and Impermanence
Description: In this episode, we try to get a feeling for emptiness, Buddha's most profound teaching and the realization that leads to enlightenment. Buddha taught that the ultimate nature of all things is emptiness. When we say our glass is empty and ask for more, the glass is empty of something. This is the same with the emptiness of reality; it means our reality is empty of something. We ask then, "reality is empty of what?" Buddha taught that our reality is empty (or lacks) inherent existence. A Tibetan singing bowl, for example, is not inherently a Tibetan singing bowl...