Are there any accounts of "emptiness", preferably purely phenomenological/methodological, that don't presume a contentious metaphysics?
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I want to find this starting point, and I think I know at least some of the phenomenology that is going on there, but the explanations also get wrapped up in metaphysics that I can't accept because they imply a rejection, not enrichment, of the ordinary everyday
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Looking up emptiness + form brings me to this: http://arobuddhism.org/view/form-emptiness-and-non-duality.html … (and I know you talk about them). This account of non-dual emptiness vs form is more helpful than others (although it includes word for word your "absence of thought, presence of awareness")
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It’s natural for thoughts to occur; prolonged states of non-thought require difficult practice to produce artificially. There’s value in that, in seeing what awareness is like without thought, but it’s not where you’d want to stop.
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There’s nothing bad about thinking (quite the opposite). The Semdé meditation system aims to first clarify and then transform the experiential nature of thought. The still awareness-within-which thought arises becomes apparent initially only when noisy thought *doesn’t* arise.
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