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
OLD - Stand Up by the Ground Serial: SR-00131 Sesshin, Second Night Lecture September, 1969 Tassajara Continuous, Freedom, Pain, reality, Ego, Lay, Emptiness, Hate	Suzuki Roshi	[field_wisdom_date] Tassajara
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
OLD - In the Prajnaparamita Sutra Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Wisdom, Perfect Wisdom, Beginners, Politics, Balance,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 21 1966 BN
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
OLD - Genjo Koan No. 4 Serial: SR-00195 Thursday, August 24, 1967 Zen Mountain Center Sesshin Lecture Tassajara Edited by Brian Fikes Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan, Faith, Nirvana, Lay, Emptiness, Suffering, Pain, Death...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 24 1967 A 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
OLD - Genjo Koan No. 4 Serial: SR-00195A Thursday, August 24, 1967 Zen Mountain Center Sesshin Lecture Tassajara Edited by Brian Fikes Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan, Breath, Emptiness, Hate, Forms, Building	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 24 1967 A 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 - Shōsan Ceremony Serial: 68-04-23-B Tuesday Evening, April 23, 1968, Lecture B Tassajara Sesshin, Shosan, Emptiness, Echo, Faith, Attachment, Hate, Forms, sitting, Tassajara...	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 23 1968 B 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-10 Serial: SR-00002 Fall 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, sitting, Ceremony, Emptiness, Priest, Funeral, Composure, heart, Monks,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 10 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
OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7 Serial: 68-10-00-F Fall 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, Suffering, Truth, Emptiness, Precepts, Wisdom, Pain, Mahayana, Ceremony...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 30 1968 Series 2, Talk 7 Tassajara
Shosan Ceremony Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 11 1968 Tassajara
1969.06.29-serial.00021 Serial: SR-00021 Duplicate of talk from this date. Emptiness, Forms, Balance, reality, Continuous, Wisdom, Death, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 29 1969
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
Practice Should Be The Practice Of “Right Now.” Serial: SR-00024 Thursday, July 3, 1969 Tassajara Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Forms, Faith, reality, Describe, training, Enemies, War,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 03 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
FORM AND EMPTINESS II Serial: SR-00027 Wednesday, July 9, 1969 Tassajara Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Forms, reality, Enemies, Truth, training, American, Duality,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 09 1969 Tassajara
I have nothing in my mind Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Passions, Interview, Beginners,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 15 1969 Sokoji
OLD - 1969.07.15-serial.00030 Serial: SR-00030 Second part of talk from this date. Emptiness, Lotus Sutra, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Sutra, Forms, Bodhidharma,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 15 1969
Blue Cliff Records-43 Serial: SR-00032 Tozan's hot and cold. Blue Cliff Record, Emptiness, Pain, Monks, difficulty, Forms, Hate, Commitment,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1969 Tassajara
That is the purpose of counting Truth, Daily Life, Anger, reality, Karma, Emptiness, Wisdom	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1969 Tassajara
The First Teaching Serial: SR-00158 Teaching of impermanence, everything changing; also there is selflessness, suffering and nirvana. The sufferings of birth, death, sickness and old age. Causes of suffering,... Suffering, Ego, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Suffering, Wisdom, Truth, Attachment,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 02 1969 Tassajara
OLD - The First Teaching Serial: SF-05302B Aug 2 lecture beginning - duplicate Faith, New Year, Politics, Attachment, Evil, Karma, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 02 1969 Tassajara
Not Always So Serial: SR-00124 August Sesshin Lecture Thursday, August 7, 1969 San Francisco Sesshin, Dogen, Interdependence, Freedom, Gratitude, Composure, Posture, Emptiness,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 07 1969 Sokoji
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
Twelve Links of Causation Serial: SR-00135 Twelve Links Of Causation Juni-innen (Jap.) Dvada-aiga-pratatyasamutpada (San.) English Japanese Sanskrit... Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 23 1969 Tassajara
OLD - Questions And Answers Serial: SR-00082 Set aside as duplicate. Question-and-Answer, Breath, Concentration, Family Practice, Emptiness, Pain, sitting...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 28 1969 Tassajara
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 - 1969.11.07-serial.00041 Serial: SR-00041 This is the second part of the talk from this date. Don't Know Mind, Describe, Emptiness, reality, Freedom, difficulty, Truth...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 07 1969
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-7 Serial: SR-00042 Third Lotus Sutra Series Friday Evening, November 7, 1969 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, Emptiness, Passions, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Evil, Sutra, Mahayana,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 07 1969 Series 3, Talk 7 Tassajara
Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is Form Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Big Mind, Forms, Don't Know Mind, Interdependence, heart...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 13 1969
Caring for the Soil Serial: SR-00199 Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism Sunday, January 25, 1970 San Francisco Emptiness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, difficulty, Greed, Gratitude, lecture, Hate...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 25 1970 City Center
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: SR-00247 Morning Sesshin Lecture Sunday, February 1, 1970 City Center Sesshin, Emptiness, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, training, Hate, Suffering, Pain,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 A City Center

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