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Śūnyatā ( shoon-yə-TAH; Sanskrit: शून्यता; Pali: suññatā lit. "emptiness", "voidness", "vacuity") is an Indian philosophical concept In Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and other Indian philosophical traditions. The concept has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context; 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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Monastic Practice

Serial: BZ-02216

The Law of Circularity, Saturday Lecture

Wearing down Self-centeredness, Jizo's Compassion, Tiger's Cave

 

Emptiness, Jizo, Compassion, Monastic Practice, Daily Life, Demons, Building,...
Nov 26 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

Three Doors of Liberation

Serial: BZ-01228

Emptiness, Signlessness, Aimlessness, One-Day Sitting

Liberation, Emptiness, Discrimination, Non-discrimination, Oneness, Big Mind, Birth-...
Apr 09 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Cultivating the Ground

Serial: 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

Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00102A

Saturday Lecture

Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Interdependence, Ego, Chanting, Duality, Composure,...
May 26 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Setting the Scene

Serial: BZ-00952B

Skandas and Emptiness, Rohatsu Day 4

Heart Sutra, Skandas, Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Non-duality, Samadhi...
Dec 07 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Madyamika/Yogachara Schools of Emptiness/Synthesis

Serial: BZ-00964A

Three Bodies of Buddha pt. II, Sesshin Day 2

Madyamaka, Trikaya, Emptiness, Yogachara, Religion, Emotions, Karma, Sixth Patriarch...
Mar 13 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

The Spiritual Life is Not Separate from the Mundane

Serial: BZ-00668B

Saturday Lecture

Emptiness, Happiness, Mundane Life, Greed, Teacher-and-Student, Religion,...
Jul 18 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Big Emptiness and Small Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00516B

Saturday Lecture

Emptiness, Sixth Patriarch, Dharma Transmission, Teacher-and-Student, Lineage,...
Aug 25 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Prajna Paramita: Four Samadhis

Serial: BZ-00002B

Sesshin Day 4

Samadhi, Emptiness, Samadhi, Zazen
May 14 1983
Berkeley Zen Center

Importance of Attention to Form in Zen Practice

Serial: BZ-00049A

Sesshin Day 1

Practice, Zazen, Emptiness
Feb 19 1983
Berkeley Zen Center

Unknown Title, Serial 01503, Side B

Serial: BZ-01503B

Speaker most likely the same as Serial No. 00306B - identified with the assistance of Shosan Victoria Austin. 

Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Poetry
Tassajara

The Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01537A

First part of class 1 of 4

Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Time
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01538

Class 2 of 4

Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Abhidharma
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01539

Clas 3 of 4

Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Desire
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01540

Class 4 of 4

Emptiness, Ego, Chanting
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Book of Serenity: Case #2: The Highest Truth is Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00418A

Rohatsu Day 6

Emptiness, SER-2, Enlightenment, Bodhidharma, Two Truths, Four Noble Truths, Practice...
Dec 1983
Part 1 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center