Voidness and Dependent Arising - Dr. Alexander Berzin - September 20, 2013

How to meditate on emptiness.
Alex Berzin is a world renowned buddhist scholar, who, among many other things, has been studying, interpreting and translating for His Holiness Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. With an outstanding grasp of Sanskrit and Tibetan, Alex has done a tremendous effort to develop and clarify Buddhist terminology to the benifit of many Western teachers and students. As a teacher, Alex has travelled extensively, teaching in many countries on various aspects of Buddhist philosophy, psychology and cosmology. Currently he lives in Berlin, where he has dedicated himself to teaching regularly and expanding his open source web-archive "Berzin Arcives", which contains numorous texts and materials translated by Berzin.
Center for Wisdom & Compassion, Copenhagen: fpmt.dk
Alexander Berzin: berzinarchives.com

[@koftu]

That alternate translation of karma is brilliant. Thank you for posting this dharma talk!

[@PaliSuttas]

I think I love this man. For me he is the voice of dharma in the West.

[@ashleyXR94]

Thank you to all whose efforts made this video available!

[@BuddhaBlurbs]

great video by a distinguished scholar/practitioner

[@sebee555]

Thank you, so very much for this immensely enriching teaching /\ ☺

[@daoistheway3666]

Very insightful!

[@ruby07241]

So knowledgeable. thank you for this.

[@claudecipullo281]

Happiness is a state of mind.

[@thomaserickson568]

I wish this guy would say "uh" more.

[@dromgarvan]

Many Thanks.

[@twnfaem]

Virtuoos

[@daverose1458]

The one teaching of Buddhism that I can not accept and that's "rebirth". If there is "no self" then what is being reborn??

[@walterjoosten5750]

Check one of Ven. Robina Courtin's videos about this subject. You will find your answer there.

[@paigerasmussen5212]

dave rose rebirth happens to the ego mind, which is not the heart mind/self.

[@Kevin-Pdog]

The definition of self is something permanent , forever lasting. For example, God from the bible. It does not mean we do not have something continue from this life to next life. Just to clarify.

[@ernestweber5207]

Only our neurosis is reborn. It gets stuffed into the mind stream and is compulsively recreating itself and so, no self realized is the end of that aspect. It is like a huge, heavy wheel turning around under its own momentum and we tend to give it another kick as our conditioned aspects arise, so it keeps on turning.

[@Behape]

You do not have to accept rebirth to understand 'buddhism'. The Buddha taught that there is suffering, a cause of suffering, a way to get rid of suffering and a state of freedom from suffering. Suffering arises from the expectation for permanence in an impermanent world. Try to understand paticca samuppada to understand how the concept of self is born in the first place.

[@JuanHugeJanus]

If karma means compulsion what is akarma then? Bhagavad Gita 4:16: "kiṁ karma kim akarmeti kavayo ’pyatra mohitāḥ tat te karma pravakṣhyāmi yaj jñātvā mokṣhyase ’śhubhāt."

[@iloverumi]

Thanls a lor!

[@pedersolvang4794]

Thanks!

[@crunckspacefdfdfd]

Thank you

[@iroh1796]

karma means action. The argument at 33:55 is not valid because there is karma fruition from the past always happening and with a weak level of concentration you think there is nothing happening in the mind but there's a lot happening you just don't see it. Redefining karma as compulsion seems just like gymnastics to fit the word because of a false argument.

[@5piles]

your explanation of a mind moving without concentration, and which lacks the skill to closely observe its activity, is the meaning of compulsion so theres no disagreement, he just refines the meaning of the term further

[@BillSikes.]

Great teaching but I wish he'd stop saying "errr" 🤔