(Follow this link to see the December 2020 Priory Newsletter where this was published.)
Rev. Master Koten Benson
This Article was originally published in the October 2020 Lions Gate Buddhist Priory Newsletter and is part of a series available on the Lions Gate Priory website. Also, the original Dharma talks are available as well (How to Meditate 1-7).
The following text is a transcription of the seventh and final part in a series of Dharma Talks offered by Rev. Master Koten to the community of Lions Gate Buddhist Priory in 2016. It was transcribed and edited by Tracy Kitagawa, Michele Feist, Pierre Kohl and Rev. Master Aurelian with minor revisions made for ease of reading.
Homage to the Buddha
Homage to the Dharma
Homage to the Sangha
Buddhism teaches that emptiness is simply empty of anything our minds can grasp and that this emptiness is the actual true nature of everything.
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