Carried by a discourse on The Heart Sutra, teacher and author Susan Piver joins Raghu to explore the truth of emptiness.
Grab your copy of Susan’s book: Inexplicable Joy: On the Heart Sutra
This week on Mindrolling, Raghu and Susan chat about:
- Practicing The Heart Sutra with only one syllable: ahh
- The truth of emptiness through recitation of non-truths
- Understanding emptiness as bliss, not as voidness
- The commitment to self interest that many westerners experience
- Releasing the ego as the first step towards embracing emptiness
- Being both empty and luminous at the same time
- Thinking of emptiness as complete interconnection and fullness
- Susan’s psychedelic experience: staying in the present, being in the womb of bliss
- The six transcendent actions and how they all spring from generosity
Check out this free, downloadable translation of The Heart Sutra from Plum Village
About Susan Piver:
Susan Piver has an international reputation as an exceptionally skillful meditation teacher. She teaches workshops and speaks on mindfulness, innovation, communication, relationships, and creativity. Susan has been a student of Buddhism since 1995, graduated from a Buddhist seminary in 2004, and was authorized to teach meditation in 2005. In 2012, she founded The Open Heart Project, the world’s largest online-only meditation center. Susan is also a New York Times bestselling author. Her most recent book, Inexplicable Joy: On the Heart Sutra, is now available. You can keep up with Susan on Instagram or on her website.
Join Susan for a 5-day Kripalu meditation retreat this November
“You’re empty of separate existence. Your parents, their parents, their parents, if someone ate a different sandwich a thousand years ago, you wouldn’t be here. Emptiness could just as easily be called fullness, completely connected.” –Susan Piver