Here’s my take on Buddhist cosmology: emptiness? yeah, everything’s empty—so what? Let’s move on to the more difficult question of how to understand that the universe, or the nature of reality, is wisdom and compassion, or love.

Here’s my teacher, Dzogchen Ponlop, teaching on buddhanature much better than I can.

and perhaps Chrissie Hynde said it better than anyone else in “Message of Love”:

“We are all of us in the gutter, some of us are looking at the stars.”