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discovered in this way, and the results of such labors are
only to know samskrta sunyata, the voidness of all
conditioned or compounded things. This type of
analysis is popular among the Yellow Sect (Gelugpa),
but it is only for convenience of explanation.
Wrong views come from thinking that sunyata is more
than the sum of the parts of things (it is not more than
the five skandhas), or that because things are sunyata,
that it is less than them. No need to increase, no need to
reduce: sunyata is just here.
He emphatically banged the cocoa tin, and beamed
at us, and went on:
You should not look for sunyata after long periods of
meditation; it may not appear at such a time.
You should also not think that because one can see it
more clearly or less clearly, that sunyata increases or
becomes less. Some think that a knowledge of the
changeability of all things is experience of the real void,
but this is just an explanation of the void
(viparinama-sunyata), and not its real essence.
The idea is also widespread that there are some
meditations which, if practiced, lead to the development
of sunyata (or to its realization), but practices are not for
this purpose and aim only at removing the obstacles
standing in the way of the appearance of the void. I have
no meditative power whereby sunyata is caused to
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