Artur Przybysławski, Emptiness is Joy or Buddhist Philosophy for the Ones Who Like to Laugh [Pustka jest radością, czyli filozofia buddyjska z przymrużeniem (trzeciego) oka], Iskry, Warszawa 2010.

"May this book be an attempt to explain that joke, which is based on the experience of Buddhist philosophy. This explanation might drag on a bit too long and include a number of digressions, but my excuse is that they might be quite funny too. It is also going to present a great deal of Buddhist philosophy, which, when transformed by meditation into a living experience, becomes the best reason for joy, which might be a surprise. [...]
One needs to look at the surrounding world through the eye of Buddhist wisdom, the so called wisdom eye, which is painted vertically on the foreheads of enlightened forms in Buddhist iconography. It can see the emptiness of all things which is, contrary to some common beliefs, nothing but joy. Tibetans use the term detong, where de comes from dewa, meaning joy, and tong from tong pa ni, which stands for emptiness.
At first sight, it is of course quite a strange definition of emptiness, but I hope it will become a bit more intuitive as the book progresses. For the sake of this very intuitiveness I gave up every one of the possible hermetic and dry speculations which often cloud this essential term of Buddhist thought and instead I've decided to bring closer the spirit or atmosphere of the aforementioned philosophy rather than its terminology, a spirit which tends to disappear behind specialist vocabulary. And so, being faithful to the spirit rather than the letter, I've decided to place this humble introduction to Buddhist thought in the context of our everyday life. Because what's the use of a philosophy, which has nothing to do with that? While some make this alienation into a virtue, Buddha claimed that the only reason for his teachings was the fact that all beings want to be happy."

 

Table of Contents

Preface

1) How to deal with stockings and garters. A word about the method of Buddhist philosophy

2) How to wreck the furniture and get away with it. A word about the emptiness of an object

3) There we are, yet not at all. A word about the emptiness of the subject

4) Deliberation while consuming - the world is only mind

5) View is king. A word about the use of emptiness

6) Karma - it's up to us what will happen

7) Overabundance of emptiness. A word about the difference between rangtong and shentong

8) Time for timeless. A word about primordial consciousness

9) Brain supremacy. A word about secretion disorder

10) Happiness, that is, happiness