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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Sunday Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Ceremony, Karma, Heart Sutra, Skandas, training, Triple Treasure... |
Jun 14 1998 Green Gulch |
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Saturday Lecture Oneness, Practice Period, Emptiness, Karma, Daily Life, Separation, Suzuki Roshi,... |
Sep 26 1998 City Center |
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Sunday Lecture Anger, Book of Serenity, Karma, Precepts, Evil, Duality, Emptiness, Offering, Fasting... |
Oct 04 1998 Green Gulch |
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Saturday Lecture realization, Right Effort, Duality, Attachment, Separation, Emptiness, Emotions,... |
Nov 11 1998 City Center |
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Rohatsu Absolute-and-Relative, Intimacy, Duality, Commitment, Separation, Soto Zen, Emptiness... |
Dec 04 1998 City Center |
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January 2nd, 1999, Serial No. 04060 Vows, Right Effort, Ceremony, Suzuki Roshi, Renunciation, Happiness, Emptiness, Soto... |
Jan 02 1999 Unknown |
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Sunday Lecture Emptiness, Nirvana Sutra, Zazen Mind, Posture, Sangha, Mindfulness, Teacher-and-... |
Mar 07 1999 Green Gulch |
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RomanceSerial: SF-03244 Sunday Lecture Commitment, Emptiness, Impermanence, Ego, Karma, Intimacy, Birth-and-Death, Buddha... |
Mar 28 1999 Green Gulch |
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Sunday Lecture Right Speech, Silence, Emptiness, Lotus Sutra, Letting Go, Conversation, Bowing, Ego... |
Jun 06 1999 Green Gulch |
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Wednesday Lecture Bowing, Emptiness, Koan, Suzuki Roshi, soto, Chanting, Tassajara, Posture, Offering,... |
Oct 06 1999 City Center |
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December 1st, 1999, Serial No. 04062 Vows, Emotions, Letting Go, Humility, Emptiness, Sangha, Patience, resistance,... |
Dec 01 1999 City Center |
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December 5th, 1999, Serial No. 03927 Hindrances, Doubt, Emotions, Enthusiasm, Emptiness, Greed, Silence, Attachment,... |
Dec 05 1999 City Center |
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December 7th, 1999, Serial No. 03951 Letting Go, Emptiness, Zazen, Mindfulness, Karma, Faith, soto, Chanting, Lineage,... |
Dec 07 1999 City Center |
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Sunday Lecture Emptiness, Emotions, Practice Period, Ceremony, Passions, Letting Go, Enthusiasm,... |
Jan 09 2000 Green Gulch |
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January Practice Period Class Emptiness, Four Noble Truths, Dependent Origination, Blue Cliff Record, Posture, Two... |
Jan 15 2000 Green Gulch |
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January Practice Period Class Heart Sutra, Duality, Non-duality, Four Noble Truths, Six Realms, Liberation, Two... |
Jan 19 2000 Green Gulch |
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Fukanzazengi ClassSerial: SF-03652 Monday Class Instruction, Book of Serenity, realization, Mahayana, Posture, Balance, Karma, Faith... |
Mar 06 2000 Green Gulch |
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Works of Dogen ClassSerial: SF-03198 Tuesday Class Delusion, Balance, Letting Go, Doubt, Buddha Ancestors, Emptiness, Dream World, Fox,... |
Mar 07 2000 Green Gulch |
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Works of Dogen ClassSerial: SF-03199 Tuesday Class Buddha Ancestors, Lotus Sutra, Balance, Emptiness, Liberation, Transmission,... |
Mar 14 2000 Green Gulch |
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April 1st, 2000, Serial No. 04026 Emptiness, Two Truths, Separation, Doubt, Non-duality, Zendo, Karma, Faith,... |
Apr 01 2000 City Center |
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Sesshin Lecture Skandas, Heart Sutra, Letting Go, Emptiness, Interdependence, Buddha Ancestors,... |
Apr 11 2000 Green Gulch |
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Sesshin Lecture Perfect Wisdom, Practice Period, training, Bell, Intimacy, Emptiness, Birth-and-Death... |
Apr 12 2000 Green Gulch |
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Women Ancestors Lineage, Transmission, Soto Zen, realization, Priest-and-Lay, Emptiness, Ceremony,... |
May 13 2000 1 |
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Surangama Sutra Class Big Mind, Light-and-Darkness, Practice Period, Faith, Triple Treasure, Emptiness,... |
May 16 2000 Green Gulch |
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Saturday Lecture Right Speech, Dana, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Intimacy, Duality, Non-... |
May 20 2000 City Center |
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Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Intimacy, Don't Know Mind, Silence, Karma,... |
May 23 2000 Green Gulch |
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Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, Manjushri, Karma, Impermanence, Emotions, Nirvana, Lotus Sutra, Religion,... |
May 30 2000 Green Gulch |
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Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, Light-and-Darkness, Skandas, true dharma, Emotions, Doubt, Buddha Nature,... |
Jun 06 2000 Green Gulch |
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Sunday Lecture Fox, causation, Karma, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Ceremony,... |
Sep 10 2000 Green Gulch |
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Surangama Sutra Class confusion, Four Noble Truths, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Discrimination, Heart... |
Sep 11 2000 Unknown |
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Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, confusion, Cultivation, Silent Illumination, Light-and-Darkness, Subject-... |
Sep 18 2000 Unknown |
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Tenzo Kyokun Class Emptiness, Dragons, Intimacy, Dharma Transmission, Zazen, Hindrances, Impermanence,... |
Nov 21 2000 Green Gulch |
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November 22nd, 2000, Serial No. 03936 Ceremony, Gratitude, Emptiness, Separation, Practice Period, Tassajara, Suzuki Roshi... |
Nov 22 2000 City Center |
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Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Attachment, Offering, Letting Go, Bodhisattva Way, Emptiness,... |
Nov 28 2000 Green Gulch |
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December 9th, 2000, Serial No. 04011 Letting Go, Emptiness, Daily Life, Religion, Patience, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death... |
Dec 09 2000 City 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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Sunday Lecture Enthusiasm, Religion, Priest, Emptiness, Nirvana, Observe, Ego, Posture, Bell,... |
Mar 18 2001 Green Gulch |
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Sunday Lecture Ceremony, Freedom, Intimacy, Impermanence, Mill Valley, Separation, Instruction,... |
May 06 2001 Green Gulch |
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Sunday Lecture Emptiness, Concentration, Buddha's Birthday, Happiness, causation, Priest,... |
Dec 02 2001 Green Gulch |
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December 8th, 2001, Serial No. 03938 Ego, Hindrances, Don't Know Mind, Daily Life, Zazen, Vows, Doubt, Emptiness,... |
Dec 08 2001 City Center |
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January 19th, 2002, Serial No. 01112 Bodhisattva Vow, Vows, Emptiness, Cultivation, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Freedom,... |
Jan 19 2002 City Center |
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Zen and Poetry Class Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Duality, Absolute-and-Relative, Impermanence, Aspects... |
Feb 19 2002 Green Gulch |
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Zen and Poetry ClassSerial: SF-01142 Life and Poetry - Ryokan, Didactic Poems - Writing without adjectives/adverbs Right Speech, Transmission, Buddha Ancestors, Emptiness, Letting Go, stubbornness,... |
Mar 05 2002 Green Gulch |
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Sunday LectureSerial: 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, Emptiness, Zendo, Big... |
May 12 2002 Green Gulch |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: 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-... |
May 14 2002 Green Gulch |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: 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... |
May 21 2002 Green Gulch |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-00918 Upagupta (Ubakikuta), leaving home Demons, Karmic Consciousness, Attachment, Karmic Consequences, Emptiness, Passions,... |
May 28 2002 Green Gulch |
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VasubandhuSerial: SF-04018 Summer intensive Delusion, Letting Go, Emptiness, Zazen, Separation, New Year, Karma, Discrimination,... |
Jul 22 2002 City Center |
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VasubandhuSerial: SF-04016 Summer intensive Separation, Karma, Delusion, Silence, Discrimination, Emptiness, Describe, Peace,... |
Jul 29 2002 City Center |
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VasubandhuSerial: SF-04017 Summer intensive Demons, Subject-and-Object, Letting Go, Separation, Emptiness, Soto Zen, Happiness,... |
Jul 31 2002 City Center |