Examples Of Misunderstand Emptiness

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The teaching of emptiness is how emptiness isn't a concept of nothingness. However, emptiness can be understood as something we cannot fully understand because everything is not what it appears to be. Theres three ways we can misunderstand emptiness: ethical, emotional, and meditative. We misunderstand emptiness in an ethical way because sometimes the methods Buddhist teachers use on their students to gain enlightenment is sometimes wrong yet students dismiss it. We misunderstand emptiness in an emotional way because we confuse emptiness with this depressing feeling of actually being empty because we feel alone or whatever the case may me. We misunderstand emptiness in a meditation because Buddhist think during mediation is when you become

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