Discovering Mind's Nature: the Heart of Buddhism
A Dharma Talk given to the students of RELS 223: Buddhism
by Lama Mark Webber
17 October, 2016 - 成人大片
Lama Mark Webber was requested by Dr. Ellen Goldberg to give a Dharma Talk to her students in Buddhism: RELS 223. In the class Lama Mark briefly talked about the importance of starting with a very high aspiration of Bodhicitta and Refuge, how he came to study, practice and teach the Dharma, and the foundations of the Path, including why and how we have anxiety, dis-ease, and suffering. Then he showed that all experience, happy or sad, is conceptually built and can only be experienced by mind. Lama Mark pointed out, by having the students look directly at their experience and the space of the mind, that mind鈥檚 innate nature is empty of all suffering, confusion, and clinging. Its nature is unobstructed, unfixed, and pervaded by love and compassion. This inexpressible nature is emptiness (shunyata). He emphasized that understanding and correctly experiencing emptiness leads to ever more profound expressions of love and compassion鈥攖his defines what a Buddhist (in practice and conduct) really is.