Nine Qualities of the Enlightened Being, Part II


John Fudjack
Type Four
The enlightened quality associated with Fours (sometimes called “Romantics”) is what in Buddhist terminology is called “insight into emptiness.” In Buddhism, “emptiness” is a technical term that does not have negative connotations. When it is said that things are fundamentally empty it means that they lack “inherent independent existence.” The direct experiential appreciation of emptiness is called “Vipassana” (literally, “insight”) and it is a primary goal of certain for...
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