Why should we think about emptiness? Because it is one of the ego’s deepest fears. In this episode, Adi and I discuss the ways the ego avoids the experience of emptiness, preferring instead to cling to its attachments, narratives and sense of forward momentum in time. But emptiness, or what the Buddha called sunyata, is the primordial condition that is required for anything to exist at all. By fearlessly embracing our essence as emptiness, we discover not oblivion, but infinite creativity and freedom.
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