| DALAI LAMA: Because of [our] innate belief in the validity of appearances, we automatically grasp on to things as enduring entitites that possess self-defining characteristics, essential natures, and this leads to all our confusion. . . . Buddhism claims that it is only through understanding the true nature of reality by gaining insight into . . . essencelessness, the emptiness of things, that one can dispel all this psychological and emotional confusion. | |||
| p. 25-26 | |||
| Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, et al. |
"Dialogue: Buddhism, Neuroscience & the Medical Sciences" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994 |
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| Symposium held by the Harvard Medical School and Tibet House. | |||
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