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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Title	Speaker	Date
Buddhism and Psychotherapy Attachment, Observe, Anger, Buddha Nature, Mindfulness, Delusion, Heart Sutra,...	Thich Nhat Hanh	[field_wisdom_date] Unknown
Take One Seat Serial: SF-03025 Commercially produced cassette: Insight Meditation West - Spirit Rock Center, PO Box 909, Woodacre, CA 94973 Letting Go, Demons, Freedom, Emptiness, Peace, Birth-and-Death, Posture, Delusion,...	Jack Kornfield	[field_wisdom_date] Spirit Rock
Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Poems 2 Serial: SF-03510 Copyright 1998 by Gary Snyder - Unedited Preview Cassette Mindfulness, Silence, Hate, Emptiness	Gary Snyder	[field_wisdom_date] Unknown
Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 2 Serial: SF-03145 Copyright 1998 by Peter Matthiessen - Unedited Preview Cassette - duplicate Interview, Suzuki Roshi, Describe, Heart Sutra, Hate, Bell, Zazen, Emptiness, Enemies...	Peter Matthiessen	[field_wisdom_date] Unknown
Dzögchen Retreat Serial: SF-01937 Saturday afternoon teachings - birthday party - Sunday morning teachings Karma, realization, Emptiness, confusion, Anger, Freedom, Separation, New Year,...	Chhoje Rinpoche	[field_wisdom_date] Nevada City
Philosophy of the Tao Serial: SF-03028 #22 Ego, confusion, Religion, Don't Know Mind, Letting Go, Evil, Emptiness,...	Alan Watts	[field_wisdom_date] Unknown
Class Karma, Concentration, Nirvana, Demons, Four Noble Truths, Faith, Conversation,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	[field_wisdom_date] Unknown
Dzögchen Retreat Serial: SF-01935 Saturday morning - view - 18 Anger, realization, confusion, Obstacles, Karma, Duality, Ego, Happiness, Emptiness,...	Chhoje Rinpoche	[field_wisdom_date] Nevada City
Transformation of Consciousness Serial: SF-02708 Harmonium Mundi Emptiness, Forgiveness, Liberation, Karma, Anger, Ordinary Mind, Equanimity, Daily...	His Holiness The Dalai Lama	[field_wisdom_date] Unknown
Dzögchen Retreat Serial: SF-01936 Sunday morning teaching continued - TSOK Emotions, realization, New Year, Karma, Attachment, Evil, confusion, Politics,...	Chhoje Rinpoche	[field_wisdom_date] Nevada City
The Philosophy of Nature Serial: SF-03048A Importance of Space Sixth Patriarch, Silence, Interdependence, Heart Sutra, Emotions, Emptiness, Birth-...	Alan Watts	[field_wisdom_date] Unknown
Pure Rules Serial: SF-05126A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #6, by Shundo David Haye ===== The value of these sets of recordings during sesshins in the summer of 1965 at Sokoji is that not... Sesshin, Instruction, Emptiness, Interview, Religion, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1965 9:00am Sokoji
OLD - Zendo Instructions Serial: SF-05260B Tape #1 Summer Sesshin Wed July 28 1965; side 1: 9am instruction: SR001 Emptiness, Oneness, Discrimination	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1965 Sokoji
OLD -Zendo Instructions, Rules and Lunch Instruction Serial: SF-05901A Tape #1 7/28/65 9am lecture instruction (copy) SR001 Discrimination, Emptiness, Passions, Evil, confusion, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1965 Sokoji
In the Prajnaparamita Sutra Serial: SF-05113-B 5pm lecture begins this side Heart Sutra, Sengai, Dogen, Emptiness, Family Practice, Beginners, Transmission,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 21 1966 5:00PM Sokoji
Genjo Koan Serial: SF-05134A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #14, by Shundo David Haye ===== The acquisition of Tassajara in 1967 was a huge leap for Zen Center. Suzuki Roshi had long been... Genjokoan, Dogen, Sesshin, Emptiness, New Year, Interview, Freedom	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 20 1967 Morning Tassajara
Genjo Koan no 2 Serial: SF-05134C ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #16, by Shundo David Haye ===== This third talk from the historic inaugural sesshin at Tassajara in 1967, given the day after the... Sesshin, Dogen, Priest, Emptiness, Dragons, Describe, confusion, Hate	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 21 1967 Tassajara
Genjo Koan no 4 Serial: SF-05136 Track 1 17/8 - Suzuki lectures - beginning missed, one or two sentences; beginning: This is the last lecture of sesshin. We have talked of emptiness and form, but have not... Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan, Time, Faith, Emptiness, Continuous, Dragons	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 24 1967 A Tassajara
Reflections on the Prajna Paramita Sutra Serial: SF-05135A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #19, by Shundo David Haye ===== This is the talk that was chosen by the... Sesshin, Sengai, Time, Emptiness, Ego, Continuous, Evil, Nirvana, Concentration,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 24 1967 Tassajara
Practice Zazen With Your Whole Mind And Body Serial: SF-05131B This is lecture D from these notes on the reel boxes (05132-B was added to this) Several minutes of tape operator's notes at the end are included, the transcript was... Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 08 1967 Morning Tassajara
OLD - Shosan Ceremony Serial: SF-05347 Copy - tape 2 of 2 Suzuki Roshi Q&A ceremony - no date (Spring '68?) - copy of o/r 68-04-23 - duplicate Sesshin, Shosan, Right Effort, Emptiness, Interview	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 23 1968 B Tassajara
OLD - Shosan Ceremony Serial: SF-05330 Copy - tape 1 of 2 Suzuki Roshi Q&A ceremony - no date (Spring '68?) - copy of o/r 68-04-23 - duplicate Echo, Attachment, Hate, Faith, Enemies, Bell, Evil, Vows, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 23 1968 B Tassajara
Shosan Ceremony Serial: SF-05143B SR023 Track 1 to 1/3 of other side Suzuki Roshi Question and Answer ceremony - copied 2 tapes [there are also photographs of hand-written notes on missing portions of Q&A... Sesshin, Shosan, Echo, Emptiness, Attachment, Hate, Faith, Interview, Enemies, Evil,...	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 23 1968 B Tassajara
Esalen Institute: First of two lectures Serial: SF-05870 This is the first of two talks given at Esalen. Dogen, Time, Four Noble Truths, Lotus Sutra, New Year, Continuous, Emptiness, soto,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 28 1968 Esalen
The Ten Powers Of A Bodhisattva Serial: SF-05106 Sunday Morning, August 25, 1968 [This date is probably incorrect. Earlier (July 21, 1968), Suzuki mentioned that he had already explained the ten powers of a bodhisattva.... Bodhisattva, Dogen, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Five Ranks, Observe, Attachment,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 25 1968 Sokoji
Shosan Ceremony Serial: SF-05094 ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #23, by Shundo David Haye ===== This was the last of the three 5" reels that appeared to be from the summer of 1968, but there... Shosan, true dharma, Separation, Faith, Emptiness, confusion, Dragons, Ego, Passions...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 10 1968 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11 Serial: SF-05251 October 1968 New version uploaded, should help with transcript Lotus Sutra, Lay, Emptiness, Interview, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 11 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12 Serial: SR-00004 Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12 Shunryu Suzuki Lecture October 1968 Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Suffering, Observe, Compassion, Intention, heart,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 12 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7 Serial: SF-06043 Fall 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Mahayana, Precepts, Nirvana, Enemies,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 7 Tassajara
The True Dragon Dogen, Baso, Dragons, Freedom, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, soto, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 12 1968 B Sokoji
Shosan Ceremony Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 11 1968 Tassajara
Emptiness is Form Serial: SF-05968 Sunday, June 29, 1969 San Francisco Newly uploaded version has speed adjustments made; should be a little clearer for transcript - not just end, but correcting... Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Current Events, Balance, Faith, Beginners, Continuous...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 29 1969 Tassajara
OLD - Form and Emptiness II Serial: SF-05228A Protection master: made from cassette: "July 5th (1969) Roshi on form and emptiness (ZMC)" "From psychological point of view" and some discussion of Chinese medicine. Time: 60... Emptiness, Oneness, Describe	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 05 1969 Tassajara
OLD - Form and Emptiness II Serial: SF-05228B Protection master: made from cassette: "July 5th (1969) Roshi on form and emptiness (ZMC)" "From psychological point of view" and some discussion of Chinese medicine. Time: 60... Emptiness, Enemies, Duality, Attachment, Hate	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 05 1969 Tassajara
OLD - Not Always So Serial: SF-06089A August sesshin 1969 Suzuki Roshi Side B: Thurs lecture - transcribed - copied ZC Freedom, Composure, Interdependence, Demons, resistance, Gratitude, Posture,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 07 1969 Sokoji
OLD - Not Always So Serial: SF-05348B August Sesshin 1969 Suzuki Roshi Thursday lecture - duplicate Freedom, Composure, Interdependence, Gratitude, Posture, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 07 1969 Sokoji
Sesshin, Third Night Lecture Serial: SR-00130 Tassajara September, 1969 Sesshin, Emptiness, reality, Passions, Intuition, Bell, Forms, American, difficulty...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 1969 Tassajara
OLD - Each One Of Us Is A Cook Serial: SF-05386A 70 #5 - Sesshin 2-1-70 Emptiness, Interview, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 Unknown
Ekō Lecture 2 Serial: SR-00229 The Second Morning Eko, Part 1 of 3 Friday Evening, July 10, 1970 Tassajara [This is the second in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted... Eko, Chanting, Chanting, Anger, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, heart, Karma, Meditation,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 10 1970 Tassajara
Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong) Serial: SF-05452-B Mill Valley Zendo, talk by Suzuki Roshi Emptiness, Precepts, Observe, Ego, Evil	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 23 1970 Mill Valley Zendo
Not Sticking to Enlightenment Serial: SF-05445B ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #26, by Shundo David Haye ===== It's not completely clear how this talk dropped off the radar, as the tape had been copied and... Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 12 1971 B City Center
Wind Stops, But Still Flower Falls Serial: SR-00163 This audio has been improved, so more of the students' questions may be discernible. Faith, Freedom, reality, Dragons, Community, Emptiness, Wisdom, Building, American,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1971 Tassajara
1973, Serial No. 03016 Serial: SF-03016 8411-2 Dragons, Bodhidharma, Light-and-Darkness, First Principle, Ceremony, Instruction,...	Alan Watts	1973 Unknown
SF Seminar Serial: SF-00022 Myths and legends in religious traditions; natural and supernatural language. Attachment, Heart Sutra, Religion, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Enemies,...	Dr Edward Conze	Feb 22 1973
The Monastic Tradition Serial: SF-00132 Monastic experience across religious traditions. Silence, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Echo, Religion, Bell,...	Brother David	Feb 26 1973 2
May 12th, 1973, Serial No. 00995 Serial: SF-00995 "First 30 mins of 70 min lecture" Freedom, Concentration, Balance, Mindfulness, Liberation, Attachment, Karma, Doubt,...	Dyrvamsa	May 12 1973 Tassajara
Discussions Freedom, Liberation, Emptiness, Duality, Attachment, Religion	Dyrvamsa	May 13 1973 Tassajara
Consciousness Mindfulness, Oneness, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Observe, Emptiness, Cultivation,...	Dyrvamsa	May 15 1973 Tassajara
1973.07.18-serial.00125 Serial: SF-00125 The third great religious awakening in America. Emptiness, Religion, Manjushri, Interview, Conversation, Karma	Huston Smith	Jul 18 1973 2
Lama Govinda’s Paper Serial: SF-00010 AIBS Religion, Emptiness, Sanctuary, Dragons, Birth-and-Death, Lovingkindness, Passions,...	Richard Baker (reading)	Aug 05 1978

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