{"product_id":"ajata-the-emptiness-teachings-paperback","title":"Ajata: The Emptiness Teachings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAjata is to walk into a dead-end canyon holding onto your ideas of \"life\" and \"death\"; make a complete turnaround, and walk back out, now fearless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twilight, a piece of rope might be mistaken for a snake. You look again and recognize that it is actually a piece of rope. Yet \u003ci\u003eneither\u003c\/i\u003e object is real in the ultimate sense. Both are merely unreal worldly objects, \u003ci\u003eappearing\u003c\/i\u003e to have reality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReasoning itself is a phenomenon \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e the \"worldly\" dream, as are all that could be reasoned about, and the reasoner too. In other words, logic as well is not real, but then none of the things it supposedly applies to are real either. The fact of emptiness shows that logic too is empty, so \u003ci\u003eit\u003c\/i\u003e cannot answer any \"why\" or \"how\" questions one might expect to pose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is an approach that can lead us to the fact of the emptiness of the world: investigating its reality is its negation. The emptiness of the world presents that opportunity. Emptiness has no intention for us to discover it; it is the world of forms that points the way to the \"why?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy is the world an \"illusion\"?; because it is empty of reality. Emptiness renders the world illusory; the illusion and its \"why\" question lead us into the ultimate truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAppearance of form causes us to assume that we are perceiving \"reality\". But paradoxically, \u003ci\u003ereality\u003c\/i\u003e is actually the \u003ci\u003elack\u003c\/i\u003e of \"reality\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat we think of as real things, we think of as arising \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e their reality. But ultimate Reality does not \"arise\". Anything which arises also departs; meanwhile it is changeable. Ultimate reality, being changeless, does not \"depart\"; neither does it arise, being \"without beginning or end\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough true reality is permanent, it does not disallow impermanent \u003ci\u003eappearances\u003c\/i\u003e, phenomena or forms. However, illusory forms cannot lay claim to ultimate reality, \"arising\" and \"departing\" as we suppose they do.\u003cbr\u003eThat all things are empty means that they are all the same. Even from this standpoint, \"co-dependence\" can be seen to be problematic because there are not really \"co's\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe point of ajata is that all things are empty of reality, since every \"form is emptiness\" from its formation. Dependent arising, therefore, is a roundabout analogy for the means of \u003ci\u003eexplaining\u003c\/i\u003e emptiness to those unwilling to accept that no forms have ever \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c\/i\u003e been formed, from the start. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll \"things\"-form, phenomena-can be seen to be co-dependent, and as such are impermanent; \"things\" change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimate reality cannot be something which changes. It is the changelessness of ultimate reality that makes it really \u003ci\u003eReal\u003c\/i\u003e. \"Things\", then, are \u003ci\u003eempty\u003c\/i\u003e of reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAjata shows us that both\u003ci\u003e non\u003c\/i\u003eexistence and \u003ci\u003eseeming\u003c\/i\u003e existence are elements of all of the universal objects. Emptiness and phenomena (objects, actions, events) are two names for the same presentation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[Excerpted from the book]\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 114\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378109366521,"sku":"9781937902391","price":29.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Jq8SYeBTg99781937902391.webp?v=1770039359","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ajata-the-emptiness-teachings-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}