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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 Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions, 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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Title	Speaker	Date
Three Characteristics of Phenomena Serial: SF-01079 One-day sitting lecture: "no eyes, no ears..." Diamond Sutra, Platform Sutra Delusion, Emptiness, Platform Sutra, Bodhisattva Vow, New Year, Teacher-and-Student,...	Daigan Lueck	May 19 2007 Green Gulch
Gazing at Flowers on the Roof of Hell Serial: SF-00914 Sunday Lecture: learning zazen with Soen Roshi in Jerusalem - interfaith practice; Easter - rebirth; Issa "Walking together on the roof of hell, looking at flowers"; Wendy's... Faith, Buddha's Birthday, Dragons, Peace, zen meditation, Gratitude, Don't...	Wendy Johnson	Apr 16 2006 Green Gulch
Fall to the Ground, Get Up by the Ground Continuous Practice, Discrimination, Birth-and-Death, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 18 2005 Tassajara
July 16th, 2005, Serial No. 03502 Delusion, Emptiness, Suzuki Roshi, Precepts, Zazen, Obstacles, Buddha Nature,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 16 2005 Tassajara
Nirvana, The Waterfall Serial: SF-03495 Sesshin 3 Day 2 Birth-and-Death, Big Mind, Subject-and-Object, Separation, Continuous Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 24 2005 Tassajara
Hokyo Zammai Class Subject-and-Object, Five Ranks, Emptiness, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana Sutra,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 10 2005 Tassajara
Hokyo Zammai Class Five Ranks, Daily Life, Absolute-and-Relative, Emptiness, Balance, Practice Period,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 10 2005 Tassajara
Shikantaza - Calm Mind Serial: SF-03497 Sesshin Lecture Birth-and-Death, Posture, Emptiness, Silent Illumination, Letting Go, Suzuki Roshi,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 20 2005 Tassajara
Sesshin Lecture Serial: SF-03651 Sesshin 1 Day 4 (date on cassette - 1.29 - is inconsistent with the previous dates in this sesshin) Suzuki Roshi, Practice Period, Bell, Zendo, Passions, Posture, Emptiness, Rinzai,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 28 2005 Tassajara
Zendo Lecture Emptiness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Karma, Separation, Practice Period, Zendo,...	Leslie James	Dec 07 2004 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03560 Dining Room Class Addiction, Lotus Sutra, Happiness, realization, Emptiness	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 27 2004 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03484 Dining Room Class Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Manjushri, Mahayana, Emptiness, Hindrances, Diversity,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 27 2004 Tassajara
Sesshin Lecture Serial: SF-03548 Second Sesshin, Zendo Lecture Lotus Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Emotions, Emptiness, Freedom, training,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 16 2004 Tassajara
November 13th, 2004, Serial No. 04089 Suzuki Roshi, Manjushri, Emptiness, Priest, Vimalakirti, Lay, Priest-and-Lay,...	Taigen Dan Leighton, Lew Richmond	Nov 13 2004 Unknown
October 2nd, 2004, Serial No. 00980 Emotions, Impermanence, Emptiness, Intuition, Practice Period, Conversation,...	Marc Lesser	Oct 02 2004 City Center
Sacred Space Serial: SF-01097 Sunday Lecture Manjushri, Emptiness, Half-Smile, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Birth-and-Death, Gratitude...	Daigan Lueck	Jul 25 2004 Green Gulch
Hsin Hsin Ming Serial: SF-01901 Zendo Lecture Faith, Don't Know Mind, Equanimity, Emptiness, Perfect Wisdom, Beginners,...	Darlene Cohen	Jun 18 2004 Tassajara
Do Not Resuscitate Emptiness, Delusion, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Discrimination, Non-...	Katherine Thanas	May 08 2004 Tassajara
Offerings Serial: SF-00158 Sunday talk. Children's lecture. Legend of the blue bonnets; Seijiki, offering food and light; karmic life and emptiness. Offering, Ceremony, Emptiness, Emotions, Intuition, Practice Period, Precepts, Karma...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 02 2003 Green Gulch Farm
Vimalakirti Sutra Serial: SF-04084 Sunday Lecture: Manjushri questioning Vimalakirti. How should one view all sentient beings - like the reflection of the moon in water, etc. Love. Wisdom of love. Heart Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Manjushri, Mahayana, Emptiness, Vimalakirti,...	Lew Richmond	Aug 10 2003 Green Gulch
December 9th, 2002, Serial No. 00978 Buddha Nature, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Ceremony, Zendo, Ordinary Mind, Bell, Emptiness,...	Marc Lesser	Dec 09 2002 City Center
Not Always So Class Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Suzuki Roshi, realization, Religion,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Nov 18 2002 Tassajara
November 6th, 2002, Serial No. 01064 Obstacles, Four Noble Truths, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind,...	Marc Lesser	Nov 06 2002 City Center
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-00953 Witch puppet started giving the talk, humorous. Why do we practice? Because we are dissatisfied. Halloween, Seijiki, legend of Seijiki, general dharma talk - impermanence,... Ceremony, Blue Cliff Record, Buddha Mind, Attachment, Hate, Emptiness, Demons, Greed...	Daigan Lueck	Oct 27 2002 Green Gulch
August 24th, 2002, Serial No. 01119 Precepts, Liberation, Delusion, training, Emptiness, Samadhi, Greed, Hate, Letting Go...	Jeffrey Schneider	Aug 24 2002 City Center
Vasubandhu Serial: SF-04017 Summer intensive Demons, Subject-and-Object, Letting Go, Separation, Emptiness, Soto Zen, Happiness,...	Teah Strozer	Jul 31 2002 City Center
Vasubandhu Serial: SF-04016 Summer intensive Separation, Karma, Delusion, Silence, Discrimination, Emptiness, Peace, Daily Life,...	Teah Strozer	Jul 29 2002 City Center
Vasubandhu Serial: SF-04018 Summer intensive Delusion, Letting Go, Emptiness, Zazen, Separation, New Year, Karma, Discrimination,...	Teah Strozer	Jul 22 2002 City Center
Transmission of the Light Class Serial: SF-00918 Upagupta (Ubakikuta), leaving home Demons, Karmic Consciousness, Attachment, Karmic Consequences, Emptiness, Passions,...	Daigan Lueck	May 28 2002 Green Gulch
Transmission of the Light Class Serial: SF-01088 What brings us to these stories(?)? What is the unrest? What is the transmission of, how does the unrest be calmed (?), impermanence is that essential problem. Stories are what... Transmission, Separation, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Five Ranks, Soto Zen, Dragons...	Daigan Lueck	May 21 2002 Green Gulch
Transmission of the Light Class Serial: SF-00917 Be careful about taking doctrine too much on faith, Don Juan's two cats; Ananda, every one of these stories has a warning, Dogen: all things, just as they are, are perfectly... Delusion, realization, Emptiness, Transmission, Religion, Interdependence, Birth-and-...	Daigan Lueck	May 14 2002 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-04071 Mothers' Day, women in Buddhism, the feminine in spirituality, story of Buddha - loss of mother, women's place in early Buddhist hierarchy, meditating on death, Buddha as a... Birth-and-Death, Intimacy, Suzuki Roshi, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Lew Richmond	May 12 2002 Green Gulch
Zen and Poetry Class Serial: SF-01142 Life and Poetry - Ryokan, Didactic Poems - Writing without adjectives/adverbs Right Speech, Transmission, Buddha Ancestors, Emptiness, Letting Go, stubbornness,...	Daigan Lueck	Mar 05 2002 Green Gulch
Zen and Poetry Class Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Duality, Absolute-and-Relative, Impermanence, Aspects...	Daigan Lueck	Feb 19 2002 Green Gulch
January 19th, 2002, Serial No. 01112 Bodhisattva Vow, Vow, Emptiness, Cultivation, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Freedom,...	Jeffrey Schneider	Jan 19 2002 City Center
December 8th, 2001, Serial No. 03938 Ego, Hindrances, Don't Know Mind, Daily Life, Zazen, Vow, Doubt, Emptiness,...	Teah Strozer	Dec 08 2001 City Center
Sunday Lecture Emptiness, Concentration, Buddha's Birthday, Happiness, causation, Priest,...	Daigan Lueck	Dec 02 2001 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Enthusiasm, Religion, Priest, Emptiness, Nirvana, Observe, Ego, Posture, Bell,...	Daigan Lueck	Mar 18 2001 Green Gulch
2001.01.03-serial.00066 Soto Zen, Five Ranks, Emptiness, Nirvana, Renunciation, Oneness, Suzuki Roshi,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jan 03 2001
December 9th, 2000, Serial No. 04011 Letting Go, Emptiness, Daily Life, Religion, Patience, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death...	Teah Strozer	Dec 09 2000 City Center
Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Attachment, Offering, Letting Go, Bodhisattva Way, Emptiness,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 28 2000 Green Gulch
November 22nd, 2000, Serial No. 03936 Ceremony, Gratitude, Emptiness, Separation, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Teah Strozer	Nov 22 2000 City Center
Tenzo Kyokun Class Emptiness, Dragons, Intimacy, Dharma Transmission, Zazen, Hindrances, Impermanence,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 21 2000 Green Gulch
Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, confusion, Cultivation, Silent Illumination, Light-and-Darkness, Subject-...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 18 2000 Unknown
Surangama Sutra Class confusion, Four Noble Truths, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Discrimination, Heart...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 11 2000 Unknown
Sunday Lecture Fox, causation, Karma, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Ceremony,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 10 2000 Green Gulch
Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, Light-and-Darkness, Skandas, true dharma, Emotions, Doubt, Buddha Nature,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jun 06 2000 Green Gulch
Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, Manjushri, Karma, Impermanence, Emotions, Nirvana, Lotus Sutra, Religion,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	May 30 2000 Green Gulch
Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Intimacy, Don't Know Mind, Silence, Karma,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	May 23 2000 Green Gulch
Saturday Lecture Right Speech, Dana, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Intimacy, Duality, Non-...	Teah Strozer	May 20 2000 City Center

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