The Aspiration to Achieve Enlightenment

The aspiration to directly perceive one's own nature of mind and to attain enlightenment is the foundation this is the bedrock on how one can really benefit all sentient beings. All phenomena are empty of an intrinsic existence an intrinsic meaning solid unbreakable permanent unchanging and autonomous existing from its own side. We don't always think you know oh look there's an intrinsic person or oh there's an extrinsic object which already doesn't make sense but we tend to hold on and grasp to things this way. A body that will break down over time or change over time it'll become bigger it'll become thinner It'll be young it'll be old it'll change constantly, he says.