“To understand how all phenomena are empty of true, or inherent, existence, we should consider our own body. Once we have understood how our body lacks true existence we can easily apply the same reasoning to other objects.
On one level we know our body very well – we know whether it is healthy or unhealthy, beautiful or ugly, and so forth. However, we never examine it more deeply, asking ourselves: ‘What precisely is my body? Where is my body? What is its real nature?’ If we did examine our body in this way, we would not be able to find it – instead of finding our body, the result of this examination would be that our body disappears. This clearly shows that our body is empty of true or inherent existence, and this is also true of our I, our world, and all other phenomena.”
Excerpt From
The New Meditation Handbook
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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