Speaker: Mark Kram. Mark shares his experience exploring emptiness, the foundational Mahayana teaching that is distilled in the Heart Sutra, 'The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom'. He explains that our wisdom increases directly as a function of how close we are to understanding this teaching. Each of us must arrive at the realization of emptiness through our own process of contemplation and meditation. Yet, because the Heart Sutra so profoundly upends our ideas about what is real, it is critical to examine our assumptions and notions before we can fully engage with emptiness. We come to understand that our mistaken "reality" is shaped by the physical senses, emotions, cultural experiences, the conceptualising mind and by the "vulgar illusions" of language itself.