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- noun Buddhism Alternative spelling of
sunyata .
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Examples
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His central doctrine is called shunyata, or emptiness.
Buddha is an Atheist 2009
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"Lack" he says, "is my interpretation of the dukkha (suffering) that occurs due to our discomfort with and resistance to our shunyata (emptiness)."
John Seed: Selling Iowa's Pollock Mural: A Zen Buddhist Perspective John Seed 2011
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"Lack" he says, "is my interpretation of the dukkha (suffering) that occurs due to our discomfort with and resistance to our shunyata (emptiness)."
John Seed: Selling Iowa's Pollock Mural: A Zen Buddhist Perspective John Seed 2011
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Sometimes this term is invoked to point to the experiences of emptiness (shunyata) or non-attachment to a sense of self (anatta) as the goal of spiritual practice.
Larry Yang: Toward Freedom And Enlightenment Queerly: LGBTQ And Dharma Larry Yang 2012
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Sometimes this term is invoked to point to the experiences of emptiness (shunyata) or non-attachment to a sense of self (anatta) as the goal of spiritual practice.
Larry Yang: Toward Freedom And Enlightenment Queerly: LGBTQ And Dharma Larry Yang 2012
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It's actually an opening into the spaciousness of being itself, a precious peek into shunyata, the sublimely empty infinite.
Dean Sluyter: The Dharma of Celebrity Death Dean Sluyter 2010
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It's actually an opening into the spaciousness of being itself, a precious peek into shunyata, the sublimely empty infinite.
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It's actually an opening into the spaciousness of being itself, a precious peek into shunyata, the sublimely empty infinite.
The Dharma of Celebrity Death Dean Sluyter 2010
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It's actually an opening into the spaciousness of being itself, a precious peek into shunyata, the sublimely empty infinite.
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"If 'God' means truth or ultimate reality, then there is a point of similarity to shunyata," His Holiness the Dalai Lama once explained in a discussion with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (see Roger Kamenetz's The Jew in the Lotus).
oroboros commented on the word shunyata
hindu for 'void' or 'nothingness'
December 16, 2006