this particular passage from the a poem written by the 2nd dalai lama is particularly relevant to my own concerns.<\/p>\n
you help me to see the great inner enemy,
\nthe I-grasping habit that sees things as real,
\nand to see its limitless harmful effects.
\nyou also showed me how to destory it;
\nso now everything manifest in the the sphere of perception
\neffortlessly arises within the path of the void.<\/p>\n
yet you did not let me fall into nihilism,
\nbut pointed out to me the relevance of how
\nall the things that appear, though mere labels,
\nnonetheless continue to function conventionally
\naccording to the laws of cause and effect.
\nthus you freed me from the terrible cliffs
\nof grasping the extreme of “is” and “is not.”<\/p>\n
on my retreat, i wrote a note to the teacher asking something along these lines ‘how does one know when is the approraite time to skillfully apply the concept of emptiness’.? his answer, “why hold on to such a belief”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
this particular passage from the a poem written by the 2nd dalai lama is particularly relevant to my own concerns. you help me to see the great inner enemy, the I-grasping habit that sees things as real, and to see its limitless harmful effects. you also showed me how to destory it; so now everything manifest in the the sphere of perception effortlessly arises within the path of the void. yet you did not let me fall into nihilism, but pointed out to me the relevance of how all the things that appear, though mere labels, nonetheless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-spirtuality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-5b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}