The Ground Beneath the Ground: Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Emptiness

In the debate halls of second-century India, a quiet monk named Nagarjuna asked a single question about the nature of reality --- and kept asking it, all the way down, until the floor disappeared. What he found there was not nothing. It was everything. This episode explores Nagarjuna's radical teaching of emptiness, why it landed as liberation rather than despair, and how his insight that separation is the construction --- not the default --- still carries weight in the world you are living in right now.
Season 1
Episode 151
Religion