{"product_id":"9781937114824","title":"Other Side of Emptiness: A commentary of Je Tsongkapa's \"Praise of Dependence Events","description":"\u003cb\u003ePOWERFUL PRESENTATION ON DEPENDENT EVENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to the traditional teachings of Buddhism, the most important thing we can accomplish in our entire\u003cbr\u003e life is to see emptiness directly.\u003cbr\u003e The emptiness that we see is not some kind of strange black realm. Rather, it is the simple fact that there is\u003cbr\u003e nothing in the whole world which does not come to us from how we have treated other people around us.\u003cbr\u003e When we do something good or bad to any person, it plants a tiny seed in our mind. When that seed flowers,\u003cbr\u003e things that are good or bad happen in our life. Our whole life happens that way.\u003cbr\u003e This means that—if we could just understand how all this seed planting really works—we could have a\u003cbr\u003e completely happy life. In theory, we could even overcome death itself.\u003cbr\u003e The fact that nothing in our life doesn’t come from these seeds is what we call “emptiness.” The ancient books\u003cbr\u003e of wisdom say that if we could just meet up with this emptiness directly during a good meditation session, this\u003cbr\u003e would catapult us to all our goals.\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps the greatest teacher of emptiness in history was the Tibetan lama named Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419).\u003cbr\u003e He held the opinion that the surest path to emptiness was a precise understanding of how those mental seeds work.\u003cbr\u003e The book you see here is a famous explanation that Tsongkapa gave of that very subject, in the form of a song of\u003cbr\u003e praise to the Buddha for teaching about mental seeds. It comes with an equally famous explanation of the song by\u003cbr\u003e the great Tibetan thinker Lama Quicksilver, who lived 1772-1851. The text has been translated by Gibson Chang\u003cbr\u003e and Geshe Michael Roach.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":60427294048542,"sku":"9781937114824","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781937114824","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}