The Importance of Emptiness

Lojong practice of mind training does teach us how to apply this greater understanding towards our more specific lives, towards the minutia of everyday interaction and frustration. As Tundjakirti says in the Majimaka Avatar, the text on emptiness, he states all things are empty of an intrinsic existence. But if someone loses their wallet and you say, oh, don't worry, it's empty, you're most likely to get punched in the face. So just pretending a large, profound, philosophical view doesn't always convince us,. It doesn't always help in working with our problems and working with the direct experience of our mind.