Suññatā: There’s Not Much to It… | Zach #2 | 7.25.21

In this conversation, Dhammarato explains the concept of reality as Sunyata (Nothing much to it) by juxtaposing it to the concept of Void (Complete nothingness). He mentions the only four requisites that we need from the conceptualized/conventional/subjective world: enough food, enough shelter, enough clothes, and enough medical attention. In that arises a new consciousness, the one in pure present. 

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0:00 Sunyata - looking for something that's not there

3:00 Concepts

5:40 Simplicity of reality vs our conceptualized version of it

16:12 Life free of meaning

19:07 Popularity as a weight NOT freedom

20:09 Four requisites: enough food, shelter, clothes, medical attention

24:30 The push and pull of Vedana

27:00 The new kind of consciousness

31:22 Wholesome mind: Correct thoughts without the added stuff to fill the void