Understanding the two truths
10 The Heart Sutra
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Wisdom 
Jan 29, 2025 A series of teachings based on Essence of the Heart Sutra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Gompa Tibetan Monastery Services
- Avoiding mistaken views of emptiness
- The complexity of causes and conditions
- When things are empty they affect each other
- Form is an expression of emptiness
- Two ways of understanding emptiness
- Questions and answers
- The difference between a conceptual understanding and an inferential realization
- Is an inferential realization of emptiness nondual?
- Emptiness makes the law of cause and effect possible
- Notes on the two truths from The Library of Wisdom and Compassion
The next teaching in this series:
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
