Discovering Buddhism, Module 12
Wisdom of Emptiness
Tuesdays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
April 12 – May 17, 2022
Meditation retreat sessions
Tuesdays, May 24 and 31, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday, May 28, 9:00am – 11:00am and 7:00pm – 9:00pm
We are using the Zoom video conferencing system for this event. Please register below to receive your online access information.
Shakyamuni Buddha’s most revolutionary assertion was that
all of our suffering experiences arise from one fundamental
misapprehension about how things exist and that it is
possible to utterly eliminate this misconception by
cultivating wisdom. We innately grasp at ourselves and all
things as existing on their own, primarily cut off and
separate from one another and from the conscious experience
of them.
The purpose of all Buddha’s teachings is to show us that
nothing exists in this way, and to lead us to develop the
right view that all things are interdependently arising
phenomena. The most fundamental truth about all things is
that they are interdependent and thereby empty of a solitary
disconnected self.
In this module, we will begin to develop this wisdom which
is key to unraveling the web of suffering and finding true
happiness.
Venerable Tenzin Legtsok is in the
eighteenth year of the Geshe Studies Program at
Sera Jey Monastic University in South India where he studies
classic Indian Buddhist treatise and their Tibetan
commentaries in the tradition of ancient Nalanda
University. He has been ordained as a Buddhist monk since
2001.
Born in Virginia, USA in 1973, he obtained a Bachelor of
Arts from Kenyon College in 1995. The question, “What
makes for the most happy and meaningful life,” which
compelled him to major in philosophy during college
gradually led to his study of meditation and philosophy
with teachers among the exiled Tibetan communities in
India and Nepal from 1999 until the present.
For the past ten years he has tried to make basic Buddhist
teachings accessible to various audiences in India and the
US through lectures, essays, and meditation instruction.
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