Emergence and Emptiness: The Suttas of Emergence and Emptiness

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The Buddha taught that the first point of ignorance cannot be known, yet he identified ignorance as the root of suffering. In his time, its workings could only be explored through meditation: how ignorance distorts perception, how it gives rise to craving, and how it sustains the illusion of a self who suffers.

Today, with the clarity offered by evolutionary biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, paleontology, and cosmology, we can glimpse wha...