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New book #BuddhismWithoutBeliefs #StephenBatchelor #Buddhism #Buddhist #Awakening #Mindfulness https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOovzBAuHy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10ktzzkssrg41

Drawing 4. Mental# Formation# Dissolving# "Buddhist philosophers see space differently. They define it as the “absence of resistance.” The space in a room is understood as the absence of anything that would prevent one moving around in it. To cross from one side of the room to the other is possible because nothing gets in your way. Rather than being the place where things happen, space is the absence of what prevents things from happening. The space in the room is nothing in itself; it is just the absence of chairs or tables, glass walls or hidden tripwires that would obstruct movement within it. In encountering no such resistance, we are able to move about freely." #StephenBatchelor #LivingwiththeDevil Absence of Resistance: g dgag rtsam gyi med dgag, or more literally: “the simple negation which is the mere cessation of obstructive contact.” This is the standard definition of “uncompounded space” (dus ma byas kyi nam mkha) in the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. Such space is a negation and as such cannot be imagined as a thing of any kind. If a fence were put across a room, it would eliminate the lack of resistance at the point where it stands. But nothing would have to be removed to make way for it. Space has added significance in serving as the classic example of a “simple negation” (med dgag), i.e., a negation that does not imply the presence of anything else, which is also for the Geluk a defining feature of emptiness (sunyata). #meditation #emptiness #secular #buddhism #agnostic https://www.instagram.com/p/BTo5m1jAYf-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dagr1mjbnl1y

@sheeptoast ・・・ What is this world? It passes, it passes. (2015) - - - #illustration #linework #art #artistsoninstagram #artist #draw #drawing #draweveryday #instaart #linework #pen #micronpen #cartoon #portrait #stephenbatchelor #elizabethconsidine #buddhistphilosophy #strange #weird #details #blackandwhite #creepy #odd #freaky