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<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/about-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/susan_kahn.png</image:loc><image:title>susan_kahn</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/4jt4000a.jpg</image:loc><image:title>4JT4000A</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/abstract-strokes.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Abstract Strokes</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2025-08-29T21:46:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/introduction-to-buddhist-emptiness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar7copy.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar7copy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar4.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar4</image:title><image:caption>“And thus there is no self existing separate from the aggregates; Divided from the aggregates there is no self to grasp.”
-Chandrakirti</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/insight_sidebar2.png</image:loc><image:title>insight_sidebar2</image:title><image:caption>"Just as here in this world an echo arises in dependence on a sound, so also all existence arises like an illusion or a mirage."
-Nagarjuna</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sidebar_5.png</image:loc><image:title>sidebar_5</image:title><image:caption>"Empty things, reflections and the like, dependent on conditions, are not imperceptible. And just as empty
forms reflected in a glass create a
consciousness in aspect similar, so too all things, though empty,
strongly manifest within their very
emptiness and since inherent nature
is in neither truth, phenomena are
neither nothing nor unchanging entities".

-Chandrakirti</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sidebar_2.png</image:loc><image:title>sidebar_2</image:title><image:caption>"When it is said that beings are like the moon reflected in limpid water rippled by a gentle breeze, the reflection and its watery support are alike in being, at every moment, impermanent and empty in nature."</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar7-copy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar7 copy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bg-home-banner.png</image:loc><image:title>bg-home-banner</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/webpic1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>webpic1</image:title><image:caption>"When it is said that beings are like the moon reflected in limpid water rippled by a gentle breeze, the reflection and its watery support are alike in being, at every moment, impermanent and empty in nature."</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/final-crop.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Final crop</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2025-08-22T01:21:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2012/11/03/consciousness-is-empty-and-so-is-love/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/headcropbright2a.jpg</image:loc><image:title>headcropbright2a</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/headcropbrightblue.jpg</image:loc><image:title>headcropbrightblue</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/headcropbright2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>headcropbright2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/headcropbright1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>headcropbright</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/headcropbright.jpg</image:loc><image:title>headcropbright</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/headcrop2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>headcrop2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/headcrop.jpg</image:loc><image:title>headcrop</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/head.jpg</image:loc><image:title>head</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/selflessness1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>selflessness</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/selflessness21.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-08-17T18:18:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2013/04/14/the-myth-of-the-self-neurology-weighs-in/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/images1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/images.jpg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/whirlpool_by_lord_rosse.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Whirlpool_by_lord_rosse</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/metzinger2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>metzinger2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/metzinger.jpg</image:loc><image:title>metzinger</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-08-17T16:03:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2012/09/07/reconsidering-psychotherapy-a-nondual-opening-to-diversity/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/no-self.jpg</image:loc><image:title>no self</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dancer.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dancer</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2023-01-07T02:21:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2011/03/01/159/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/551971_4517101334492_649434227_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>551971_4517101334492_649434227_n</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nagarjuna.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>nagarjuna</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-06-20T21:18:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/on-the-emptiness-of-the-self/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar4copyant.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar4copyant</image:title><image:caption>“And thus there is no self existing separate from the aggregates; divided from the aggregates there is no self to grasp.”
-Chandrakirti</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/fotosearch_k2392094.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fotosearch_k2392094</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_icon-copy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_icon copy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/eye.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Eye</image:title><image:caption>"That very seeing does not see itself at all. How can something that cannot see itself see another?" -Nagarjuna</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/the-walls-of-vhils-aka-alexandre-farto-yatzer-c.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The-walls-of-Vhils-aka-Alexandre-Farto-yatzer-c</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar5.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar5</image:title><image:caption>“That very seeing does not see itself at all. How can something that cannot see itself see another?”  -Nagarjuna</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar6.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar6</image:title><image:caption>“If a concept and its object were not different, [the word] ‘fire’ would burn the mouth.”  -Nagarjuna</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar2.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar2</image:title><image:caption>“I have a head. Where is this I who has the head. Is it the head? Is the head part of the me? I have one head that is the head as well as one head that is at least one part of the I possessing the head. So then I have two heads.”  -Jeffrey Hopkins</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar1.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_sidebar1</image:title><image:caption>"Beings think "I" first, and cling to self; they think of "mine" and are attached to things." -Chandrakirti</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_header-copy.png</image:loc><image:title>selflessness_header copy</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-08-05T21:57:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2014/09/11/the-two-truths-of-buddhism-and-the-emptiness-of-emptiness/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2headedbuddha3copy.png</image:loc><image:title>2headedbuddha3copy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2headedbuddha1-copy1.png</image:loc><image:title>2headedbuddha1 copy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2headedbuddha-copy.png</image:loc><image:title>2headedbuddha copy</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-08-03T14:45:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2012/12/12/memory-is-not-a-time-traveler/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jacquesderridascript2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JacquesDerridaScript2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jacquesderridascript.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JacquesDerridaScript</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jacquesderrida-31.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JacquesDerrida 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jacquesderrida-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JacquesDerrida 3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/derridascript.png</image:loc><image:title>DerridaScript</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/book.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Book</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/nagarjuna.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Nagarjuna</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jacquesderrida31.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JacquesDerrida3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/254_14177063047_5569_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>254_14177063047_5569_n</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/old-photo1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NYC History In Pictures</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-03-05T05:46:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2013/05/14/why-cause-and-effect-never-met/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/11585056-abstract-illustration-of-a-glowing-flower.jpg</image:loc><image:title>11585056-abstract-illustration-of-a-glowing-flower</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/abstract_plant-1600x1200.jpg</image:loc><image:title>abstract_plant-1600x1200</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/seedandsprout.jpg</image:loc><image:title>seedandsprout</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-04-04T20:05:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2013/10/24/the-death-illusion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/noplacetodie-original1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NoPlaceToDie-original</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-10-21T09:46:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/emptiness-meditation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/reflections2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reflections2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar7-copy-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture 247</image:title><image:caption>"Those who assert dependent phenomena.
as like moons in water, as not real and not unreal
Are not tricked by views."
-Nagarjuna</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selflessness_sidebar7-copy-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture 247</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/abcbud1-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Abcbud1-2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/insight_sidebar4.png</image:loc><image:title>insight_sidebar4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/insight_sidebarbicycle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>insight_sidebarbicycle</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/insight_sidebar1.png</image:loc><image:title>insight_sidebar1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/insight_header-1.png</image:loc><image:title>insight_header-1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/buddhacroppednot-photshopped-cool.png</image:loc><image:title>buddhacroppednot photshopped-cool</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2024-08-31T17:01:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2012/07/29/no-true-separation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pt-reflections-891.png</image:loc><image:title>pt-reflections-89</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pt-reflections-89.png</image:loc><image:title>pt-reflections-89</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pt-reflections-21.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pt-reflections-21</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/part-liquid-by-brownee-nazi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Part liquid by Brownee Nazi</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/water1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>water</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/water.jpg</image:loc><image:title>water</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/42-21053514.jpg</image:loc><image:title>42-21053514</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pa120226reflectiondesignsweb2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pa120226reflectiondesignsweb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2022-11-02T06:18:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2011/08/18/1723/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/einstein10_0.jpg</image:loc><image:title>einstein10_0</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/images.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/220px-albert_einstein_nobel.png</image:loc><image:title>220px-Albert_Einstein_(Nobel)</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/einstein.jpg</image:loc><image:title>einstein</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/1157733.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1157733</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-09-01T16:29:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/2012/02/02/2757/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://emptinessteachings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/120.jpg</image:loc><image:title>120</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-12-31T03:42:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://emptinessteachings.com</loc><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority><lastmod>2025-08-29T21:46:42+00:00</lastmod></url></urlset>
