Emptiness Talks
Śūnyatā ( shoon-yə-TAH; Sanskrit: शून्यता; Pali: suññatā), translated most often as "emptiness", "vacuity", and sometimes "voidness", or "nothingness" is an Indian philosophical concept. In Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and other philosophical strands, the concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.
In Theravāda Buddhism, Pali: suññatā often refers to the non-self (Pāli: anattā, Sanskrit: anātman) nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. Pali: Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.
In Mahāyāna Buddhism, śūnyatā refers to the tenet that "all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature (svabhava)", but may also refer to the Buddha-nature teachings and primordial or empty awareness, as in Dzogchen, Shentong, or Chan.
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OfferingsSerial: SF-00158 Sunday talk. Children's lecture. Offering, Ceremony, Emptiness, Emotions, Intuition, Practice Period, Precepts, Karma... |
Nov 02 2003 Green Gulch Farm |
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2003.07.13-serial.00019 Shikantaza, Emptiness, zen meditation, Mill Valley, Intention |
Jul 13 2003 |
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2002.08.14-serial.00015 Big Mind, Monkey Mind, Kinhin, Emptiness, Heart Sutra |
Aug 14 2002 |
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Cultivating the GroundSerial: BZ-00141B Comentary on Suzuki Roshi Lecture, Sesshin Day 2 Emptiness, Silence, Buddha Nature, causation, Big Mind, Ego, Karma, Attachment,... |
Mar 16 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2001.08.08-serial.00167 Passions, Non-discrimination, Emptiness, Intimacy |
Aug 08 2001 |
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2001.07.18-serial.00053 Death, American, Emptiness, Rumi, Silence |
Jul 18 2001 |
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2001.07.18-serial.00192 Death, American, Emptiness, Rumi, Silence |
Jul 18 2001 |
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EmptinessSerial: BZ-00102A Saturday Lecture Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Interdependence, Ego, Chanting, Duality, Composure,... |
May 26 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2001.01.03-serial.00066 soto, Five Ranks, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Nirvana, Renunciation, Oneness, Suzuki Roshi,... |
Jan 03 2001 |
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Women Ancestors Lineage, Transmission, Soto Zen, realization, Priest-and-Lay, Emptiness, Ceremony,... |
May 13 2000 1 |