28/03/2019 - New study suggests meditating on emptiness might be better than mindfulness

BY HALEIGH ATWOOD| MARCH 26, 2019

In a recent study, meditating on emptiness led to a 24 percent decrease in negative emotions.

Emptiness meditation may be more effective at improving wellbeing than mindfulness meditation, according to psychologists at the University of Derby, UK.
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Led by psychologist and lecturer William Van Gordon, an international research team conducted the first-ever study to investigate the impact of Buddhist emptiness meditation. A central Buddhist insight, emptiness is the understanding that neither we nor any phenomenon in the universe — sentient or otherwise — has a permanent, separate, and independent core, or soul.  more...