““If it has introduced you to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of Sunyata then it has achieved its main goal. Once you experientially understand this concept then all things will become transparent to you. Sunyata brings the intuitive into the rational. It allows us to understand the interconnections. When we understand the interconnections, then we can act in accordance with life. We can ascertain the ecology of ourselves and our world. We can keep our house in order.””
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