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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 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
The Meeting of American Culture and Buddhism Serial: SF-00103 Lecture Series Right Speech, Tassajara, Fox, Half-Smile, Lay, Emptiness, Concentration, Monastic...	Jane Hirshfield	Mar 01 1994 City Center
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-03675 Includes Q&A and discussion Big Mind, Emptiness, Bell, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Instruction, Zazen,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 13 1994 Green Gulch
Wednesday Lecture training, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Subject-and-Object, Posture, Instruction,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 30 1994 Green Gulch
1995.02.22-serial.00076 Hate, Suzuki Roshi, Repentance, Constancy, Sangha, Practice Period, Tassajara, Karma...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Feb 22 1995
Shantideva Class Serial: SF-03203 Practice of Wisdom Interdependence, Emotions, Attachment, Emptiness, Zazen, Posture, Ego, Describe,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	May 23 1995 Unknown
July 26th, 1995, Serial No. 00919 Emptiness, Suzuki Roshi, Echo, Tassajara, Zazen, Global Warming, Letting Go, Practice...	Katherine Thanas	Jul 26 1995 Unknown
Putting Our Effort Into Sitting Serial: SF-03607 One-day sitting realization, Posture, Mindfulness, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Emptiness, Harmonizing,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Sep 16 1995 Green Gulch
Bodhidharma Serial: SF-03627 Sunday Lecture Forgiveness, Triple Treasure, Mindfulness, Bodhidharma, Emptiness, Precepts, Blue...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 01 1995 Green Gulch
Causes and Conditions Serial: SF-03660 One-day sitting Emptiness, Posture, Book of Serenity, Subject-and-Object, realization, Buddha Nature...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 14 1995 Green Gulch
October 25th, 1995, Serial No. 02702 Hsin Hsin Ming, Composure, Emotions, Suzuki Roshi, Faith, Daily Life, Hate, Zazen,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Oct 25 1995 Unknown
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-03626 Our practice and our efforts that we make towards peace within ourselves and within our lives Practice Period, Birth-and-Death, Karma, Emptiness, Giving-and-Taking, Zazen,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 05 1995 Green Gulch
Women in Buddhism Class Emptiness, Balance, Liberation, Nirvana, Lay, Heart Sutra, Religion, Mahayana, Birth-...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 06 1995 Unknown
The Greater Discourse and the Destruction of Craving Serial: SF-03231 Sunday Lecture Anger, Silence, Letting Go, Bell, Happiness, confusion, Suzuki Roshi, Bodhisattva...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Nov 19 1995 Green Gulch
Prajna Paramita Class Emptiness, Perfect Wisdom, Heart Sutra, Ego, Faith, realization, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 27 1996 Unknown
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-03636 Cassette side B is labeled for a Sunday talk by Tenshin Reb Anderson on the same date - incorrect Practice Period, Ordination, Perfect Wisdom, Zendo, Emptiness, Ceremony, Monastic...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 24 1996 Green Gulch
Old Age, Sickness and Death Serial: SF-03633 One-day sitting - Katagiri in Returning To Silence - Three kinds of thirsting desire Two Truths, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Funeral, Zazen, Continuous, Obstacles,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Apr 20 1996 Green Gulch
April 24th, 1996, Serial No. 02705 Suzuki Roshi, Emptiness, Intimacy, Zazen, Birth-and-Death, Zazen Mind, Dharma...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Apr 24 1996 Unknown
Lotus Sutra Class Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Emptiness, Offering, Four Noble Truths, Birth-and-Death,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	May 21 1996 Green Gulch
Lotus Sutra Class Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Evil, Manjushri, Dragons, Vows, Buddha Nature, Emptiness,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	May 23 1996 Green Gulch
August 3rd, 1996, Serial No. 02691, Side A Passions, Silence, Bodhisattva Way, Vows, Emptiness, Ceremony, Birth-and-Death,...	Lou Hartman	Aug 03 1996 City Center
1996.09.11-serial.00084 Serial: SF-00084 Wednesday talk. Patience, Suzuki Roshi, Emptiness, Letting Go, confusion, Demons, Absolute-and-...	Ane Pema Chödrön	Sep 11 1996 Green Gulch Farm
September 21st, 1996, Serial No. 01886 Suzuki Roshi, Four Noble Truths, Dragons, Aspects of Practice, Zazen, Emptiness,...	Steve Weintraub	Sep 21 1996 Unknown
Jewel Mirror Samadhi Class Five Ranks, Delusion, Absolute-and-Relative, Attachment, Emptiness, Soto Zen, soto,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Oct 03 1996 Green Gulch
Effort - While You're Already Perfect Heart Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Emptiness, realization, Precepts, Passions, Right Effort,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Nov 13 1996 Unknown
Sandokai Class Oneness, Darkness and Light, Practice Period, Separation, Karma, Emptiness, Politics...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Nov 13 1996 Green Gulch
Sandokai Class Evil, Religion, Funeral, Tassajara, Discrimination, Suzuki Roshi, Emptiness, Oneness...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Nov 25 1996 Green Gulch
Just Die On Exhalation Serial: SF-02709A Rohatsu Sesshin "(a keeper)" Emptiness, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go, Composure, Bodhidharma, Impermanence, Posture...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Dec 04 1996 Unknown
Be Completely Who You Are Serial: SF-02709B Rohatsu Sesshin Emptiness, Suzuki Roshi, Happiness, Anger, Emotions, Zazen, Ceremony	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Dec 05 1996 Unknown
Poetry of Enlightenment Serial: SF-00071 Class realization, Emptiness, Echo, Dragons, Balance, Bell, Priest, Emotions, Freedom,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Feb 04 1997 1
Song of Jewel Mirror Samadhi Serial: SF-00072 5:00 class Buddha Ancestors, Four Noble Truths, Absolute-and-Relative, Emptiness, Samadhi,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Feb 04 1997
Genjo Koan workshop resistance, Emotions, Daily Life, Passions, Emptiness, Interview, Describe,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jun 15 1997 Green Gulch
Mountains And Rivers Without End Serial: SF-03582 Mountains And Rivers Workshop, Mark Gonnerman, Stanford Humanities Center, Kresge Auditorium Darkness and Light, Chanting, Evil, Silence, Lay, Emptiness	Gary Snyder	Oct 09 1997 Stanford University
Mountains And Rivers Without End Serial: SF-03583 Mountains And Rivers Workshop, Mark Gonnerman, Stanford Humanities Center, Kresge Auditorium Heart Sutra, New Year, Funeral, Emptiness, Gratitude, Fox, Bowing, Dragons, Obstacles...	Gary Snyder	Oct 09 1997 Stanford University
Majjhima Nikaya Class Serial: SF-03195 Middle-length Discourses Attachment, Addiction, Mindfulness, confusion, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Zazen,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Oct 14 1997 Green Gulch
Chao Chou's Four Gates Serial: SF-03239 Sunday Lecture: case 9 of the Blue Cliff Record: "What is Chao Chou?" "East gate, west gate, south gate, north gate" Practice Period, Ordinary Mind, Buddha Nature, Blue Cliff Record, Suzuki Roshi,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Oct 19 1997 Green Gulch
Saturday Lecture Two Truths, Attachment, Non-attachment, Separation, Tassajara, Dana, Suzuki Roshi,...	Teah Strozer	Oct 25 1997 City Center
Precepts Class Serial: SF-03532 Brief Review of Class 1 - the Three Refuges Precepts, Emptiness, Triple Treasure, Bodhisattva Precepts, Vows, Buddha Nature,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 27 1997 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Lecture Manjushri, Bodhisattva Precepts, Precepts, Blue Cliff Record, Sangha, Practice Period...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Nov 15 1997 Green Gulch
Scholarship Conference Paper Serial: SF-03238 Sunday Lecture Heart Sutra, Lineage, Platform Sutra, soto, Religion, Study Period, Emptiness,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Nov 16 1997 Green Gulch
Rohatsu Sesshin Absolute-and-Relative, Intimacy, Separation, Soto Zen, Commitment, Emotions, Doubt,...	Teah Strozer	Dec 04 1997 Unknown
Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 2 Serial: SF-03053 Copyright 1998 by Peter Matthiessen - Unedited Preview Cassette Describe, Interview, Suzuki Roshi, Evil, Heart Sutra, Hate, Liberation, Bell, Zazen,...	Peter Matthiessen	1998 Unknown
Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Poems 2 Serial: SF-03506 Copyright 1998 by Gary Snyder - Unedited Preview Cassette - duplicate Mindfulness, Silence, Hate, Emptiness	Gary Snyder	1998 Unknown
Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 3 Serial: SF-03054 Copyright 1998 by Peter Matthiessen - Unedited Preview Cassette Describe, Hate, training, Zendo, Ego, Balance, Bell, Doubt, Faith, Emptiness...	Peter Matthiessen	1998 Unknown
Sunday Lecture Precepts, Emptiness, Offering, Bodhisattva Precepts, New Year, Observe, Ceremony,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Jan 04 1998 Green Gulch
Wednesday Lecture Emotions, resistance, Practice Period, Vows, Separation, Anger, Daily Life, Doubt,...	Teah Strozer	Jan 07 1998 City Center
Saturday Lecture Daily Life, Non-discrimination, Observe, Dana, realization, Emptiness, Discrimination...	Teah Strozer	Jan 24 1998 City Center
Saturday Lecture Bodhidharma, Emotions, Instruction, Daily Life, Concentration, Letting Go, Lay,...	Teah Strozer	Feb 28 1998 City Center
Spring Sesshin Serial: SF-02728 Thursday Emptiness, Zazen, uchiyama, Letting Go, Anger, Suzuki Roshi, Instruction	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Mar 26 1998 Unknown
Spring Sesshin Serial: SF-03942 Friday Ego, Anger, Emotions, Tassajara, Bell, Instruction, Suzuki Roshi, Emptiness, Samadhi...	Teah Strozer	Mar 27 1998 Unknown
Wednesday Lecture Precepts, Impermanence, Separation, resistance, Mindfulness, Emotions, Suzuki Roshi,...	Teah Strozer	May 20 1998 City Center

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