emptiness
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also śūnyatā · shunyata · ku
Summary
Shunyata is the Sanskrit word for emptiness; the Heart Sutra says that form is emptiness and emptiness is form. In these texts it means being without anything extra, without a separate existence of one's own, and the balanced state we have when we act fully, not split into thinking mind and moving body.
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the true meaning of shunyata is the very fine and nice balanced state which we experience in our lives
Zazen Without an Intentional Aim February 2009 — Cholín
The most important texts
- Maha Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra ●●●emptiness of own identity · five skandhas · form is emptiness · no appearance and no disappearance
He will have noticed that the five skandhas are empty of identity
- The Sutra of the Heart of the Great Practice of Zazen ●●●emptiness of own identity · five skandhas · just as it is
physical form, feeling, perception, human constructs, consciousness) have no actual existence of their own
Other texts
- The Heart Sutra: Labels and Reality ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenecfive skandhas · form is emptiness · state which is empty
the first of the five ways of describing the psychophysical body. And these are called the five skandhas
- MMK 5: Relinquishing All Views ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikaemptiness as awareness without concepts · śūnya as zero · śūnyatā as the balanced state
Nagarjuna uses the word ‘emptiness’, to put it simply, to describe the state where our conscious awareness is empty of the discriminating conceptual entities
- Bussho 2: Without a Concept of Buddha-Nature ●●● Winter 2005 — Busshoone thing with two names · śūnyatā as the state without
discusses the meaning of sunya or ku, as “being without”, being without any trapping, being natural
- Maka-hannya-haramitsu ●●● Shobogenzoform is emptiness
matter is just the immaterial and the immaterial is just matter. Matter is matter, the immaterial is the immaterial
- Bussho ●●● ShobogenzoBuddha-nature as emptiness
The Buddha-nature is emptiness, so we call it being without.
- Genjo-koan 3: Action Only Here and Now ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanno appearance and no disappearance
reality doesn't come from anywhere, or go to anywhere, it's always here
- Kuge 3: The Whole World in Each Flower ●●● Winter 2007 — Kugeambiguity of ku
the word itself is a bit ambiguous in Japanese, which is why I put “air/space” in that poem
- Kuge 4: Nothing to Get Rid Of ●●● Winter 2007 — Kugeemptiness as nihilism
he may be denying the teaching of ‘emptiness’, ‘the world is empty’, which is a kind of nihilism
- MMK 2: Non-Separation ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikaillusion of arising and ceasing
In conclusion, the process of dharmas arising, continuing in existence and ceasing are an illusion
- Zazen Without an Intentional Aim ●●● February 2009 — Cholínśūnyatā as the balanced state
the true meaning of shunyata is the very fine and nice balanced state which we experience in our lives
- Why We Practice Zazen ●●● August 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijimaśūnyatā as a feeling of nothing
Sunyata is feeling as if it is nothing.
- Bussho 3: Joshu’s Dog and Concepts ●●● Summer 2005 — Busshośūnyatā as the state without
We can translate sunyata as “the state which is without”
- Understanding the Shobogenzo ●●●emptiness as an intellectual philosophy
These thinkers propose a philosophical system which is different from idealism, materialism and their combinations, but still in the intellectual area.
Keywords
Ideas (16) five skandhas3 form is emptiness3 emptiness of own identity2 no appearance and no disappearance2 śūnyatā as the balanced state2 śūnyatā as the state without2 ambiguity of ku Buddha-nature as emptiness emptiness as awareness without concepts emptiness as nihilism illusion of arising and ceasing just as it is one thing with two names state which is empty śūnya as zero śūnyatā as a feeling of nothing
Themes (1) emptiness as an intellectual philosophy