How Things Exist: Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and your Smartphone #37 [rebroadcast]

The Buddhist view on reality, called emptiness, combines the awe of scientific knowledge with the inner, experiential knowledge that comes from meditation and critical reasoning to arrive at a feeling of interconnectedness. The first in a seven-art series on Buddhism's view of dependent origination looks at how objects exist using the example of that most modern wonder and addiction, our smartphone.Episode 37: How Things ExistIf you're looking for a thoughtful gift this holiday season, the bo...