Buddhism: Emptiness (Sunyata) - The Essence of Buddhism
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- Buddhism: Emptiness (Sunyata) - The Essence of Buddhism.
"Emptiness is described as the foundation that makes all things possible."
(The 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche has stated in the book: ‘Awakening the Sleeping Buddha’)
The feeling of expansiveness that comes when completely releasing the mind, referred to in Buddhist terminology as "emptiness," is arguably one of the most misunderstood terms in Buddhist philosophy. For Buddhists, this term is challenging enough, but Western readers face even more difficulties. The initial translators of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit and Tibetan into English interpreted emptiness as "voidness" or "nothingness," mistakenly likening emptiness to the concept that nothing exists at all. Nothing could be more off the mark compared to the truth that Buddha intended to convey.
While Buddha indeed taught that the essence of the mind - and indeed, of all phenomena - is emptiness, he did not mean that this essence is truly empty, like a void. He referred to it as "emptiness," and in Tibetan, the term is tongpa-nyi. Tongpa means "empty," but only in the sense that it is something beyond our sensory perception or conceptual articulation. A better translation might be "inconceivable" or "undefinable." Meanwhile, the word ‘nyi’ does not have a particular meaning in everyday language, but when used after another word, it implies "possibility" - meaning anything can arise, anything is possible. Therefore, when Buddhists speak of emptiness, they do not mean "nothingness" but rather an infinite potential that allows any event to manifest, change, or disappear.
This concept may find parallels in the strange and wonderful phenomena observed by physicists studying the workings of an atom. According to physicists I have spoken with, all subatomic phenomena emerge from a ground state often referred to as "the vacuum state," the state with the lowest energy in the subatomic universe. In this "vacuum state," particles continuously appear and disappear. Thus, although it may seem empty, this state is actually highly dynamic and full of potential to generate any matter. In this sense, the "vacuum state" shares some properties with the "emptiness of consciousness." Just as the vacuum is considered empty yet is the source of all particle forms, consciousness is also "empty" in that it defies all concrete description. Yet, from this undefinable and unknowable foundation, all thoughts, emotions, and sensations continually arise.
Because the nature of your mind is emptiness, you have the capacity to experience an unlimited variety of thoughts, emotions, and sensations. Even the misunderstandings about emptiness are merely phenomena that arise from emptiness!
Here is a simple example that might help you somewhat understand the nature of emptiness on an experiential level.
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Buddha's Teachings spreads to many parts of the world already more than three thousand years.
What is left behind in India today is historical sites of Buddha's legacy.
Buddhism in India today has become a study and research by scholars.
1800 years after Bodhi Dharma from India spread Zen Buddhism to China, and five hundred years later many great teachers were borne in China.
Stories and records of manifestation of Bodhisattvas like Manjushri Bodhisattva, Samanthabrada Bodhisattva, Maitreya Bodhisattva, Aloveskitavara Bodhisattva, Earth Store Bodhisattva, Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva and stories like beggar monk JiGong and laughing Buddha are popular stories in China.
There are also records of manifestation of Shakyamuni Buddha and Amitabha Buddha.
Mahayana Buddhism in China is flourishing. Many old temples were restored by the governments.
There are Four Sacred Mountains home for the Great Bodhisattvas.
Mount Wutai of Shanxi Province the home Manjushri Bodhisattva,
Mount Emei of Sichuan Province the home of Samanthabrada Bodhisattva.
Mount Putuo of Zhejiang Province, the home of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.
Mount Jiuhua of Anhui Province, the home of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
The recent restoration temple in Mt. Tien Mu in Hangzhou Province, the home of Skanda Bodhisattva.
Want to learn Buddhism today one has to go to China.
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Don't say god, particularly the biblical god ! Don't confuse Buddha Dharma with the monotheistic religion. In Buddha Dharma, there is no creator, no god. Every sentient being has the potential to become a Buddha, the enlightened being. Christianity or catholicism, talk about human have original sin , have to believe in the myth that jesus died for human's sin, otherwise burned in hell for eternity. Even if you buy the myth, you go to heaven to worship god, not become a god
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Lots of gods. Not the point
Every religion have it's own God, Every religion have it's own haeven & hell.
@@cwilkinsonwckYes also lots of heaven.
Buddha did not teach emptiness as it is misunderstood here. Buddha clearly said “form is emptiness, emptiness is form. form is nothing other than emptiness, emptiness is nothing other than form.” And this is true for all appearances and concepts. The Buddha taught appearance emptiness, bliss emptiness, and awareness emptiness. The Buddha taught that although everything appears it is empty of true existence. The appearance denies nihilism and the emptiness denies creation or existence. The great middle way is the way where there is no middle between the nonexistent extremes of nothingness and permanence.
Buddha says “form is emptiness, emptiness is form. form is nothing other than emptiness, emptiness is nothing other than form.”
As far as my understanding, " 5 aggregate are emptiness, emptiness is five aggregate." " 12 Ayatana are emptiness: 18 Dhatu are emptiness." Inconclusion,
Nibbana is emptiness( Sunnata).
According to Kudaka Nikaya,Udana Pali, "there is, bhikkhus, that Nibbana where there is no earth element, no water element, no fire element, no air element:
no base consisting of the infinity of space, no base consisting of the infinity of consciousness, no base consisting of nothingness, no base consisting of neither-perception-nor-non-perception;
neither this world nor another world nor both; neither sun nor moon.
Here, bhikkhus, I say there is no coming, no going, no staying, no deceasing, no uprising. Not fixed, not movable, it has no support.
Just this is the end of suffering."
The old quantum physics theory….The wave/stuff theory….That the wave is infinite potential and possibilities out of which stuff (that cell phone in your hand ect) comes out of and (temporarily) loses its infinite potential…Stuff is wave taking a break in a form but eventually goes back…But wave and stuff are always the same… hence The Buddhist saying form is emptiness…emptiness is form…Or FARM IS TABLE…TABLE IS FARM🐻❄️
The Nibbana is hard to see,
The truth is not easy to see;
Craving is penetrated by one who knows,
For one who sees there is Sunnata. (Buddha)
Buddha says,
"There is no destination to indicate where a fire has completely extinguished. Similarly, there are no words to describe the state when an Arhat, having seen the ultimate truth, passes away." KN
I grew up with Buddhist monks. In my reality Buddhism is a PATH (not a philosophy or a religion) that leads to Emptiness....... that is your original state. Zen call that state your 'original face'. In a presence of an enlightened master that can happen instantly, provided that you are READY. Look in to the 'Flower Sermon' 💜♪♫*¨*•.¸¸ ॐ
You? Yourself? What do these mean?
Void is full and full is void means co exist where formless and form arise and fall .
Everything you cannot control, it’s Emptiness (Anatta) in short. For example you said the Form is yours why don’t you keep it for last long, it will be gone someday , you can’t control it.
Does "emptiness" = Satwa?
Points of nothingness could make points of emptiness relatively, and I developed it mathematically.
Though I appreciate these videos trying to convey something of Buddhism as a philosophy and practice, unfortunately there’s too much attempt at trying to say, or convincing, more than is needed, which can have the opposite affect of understanding. For this reason, it is best not to deviate too far from the Buddha’s teachings, or intent, which is liberation from suffering. Suffering, in turn, is due to ignorance and grasping, above all else, to the self. At the moment of his awakening, the Buddha declared his central finding - dependent origination or arising or co-arising. This central insight led the Buddha to the realization that all things are EMPTY OF ESSENCE, or ANATTA. Again, it is best to return to the source of the teachings; don’t rely too much on over-dramatization, doing so may lead to new-age nonsense.
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Emphasizing on emptiness as some truth was a big mistake done centuries after the passing away of Lord Buddha. It has just become a point of debate and misunderstanding - a concept which people spend time trying to figure out. It's not the path, only a description for the undescribable, and only sensible for those who have completed the path. All the debates are for people who are not even close to the path.
Let me realize emptiness…But not yet.
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Emptiness is who we really are. Our present self is anattā, temporary.
Emptiness describes things that are dependently originated, they have no real nature. They are illusions (māyā). They have no self-existence. What is real is not dependently originated. The real is self-existent (svayambhu)-never dependent.
Emptiness according to the christians means no God or no Lord Jesus in our life!
Emptiness (Suyatha) may be essence of Buddhism. But Buddha never said about emptiness or nothingness. You can’t empty your mind forever. The moment of your birth to moment of your death the mind is behave its own. No one can interfere or alter any thought. You can’t empty your thoughts from your mind (i.e. the Brain) in any means. Emptiness and Samadhi is a concept of Hinduism. Never can achieve, never happen.
Please Buddha emptiness is not that empty your mind all time oo, is about nature of reality… All that he mind was that there’s nothing like self because everything changes
Read about dependent origination, impermanence, non-self from any buddhist sutra, if u still believe emptiness comes from hinduism. Also in hindu philosophy system only patañjali yoga sutra first talks about samadhi which came to exist roughly 200+ years after buddha
369.) O Bhikshu, empty this boat! if emptied, it will go quickly; having cut off passion and hatred thou wilt go to Nirvana. Dhammapada
Emptiness and Samadhi are Buddhist concepts which was copied by Hindus. All Hindus had was Union with Brahma - a god cursed for lying and lusting after his daughter. That’s hinduism, a religion of cursed gods and men posing like they know something.
Sunyata is indeed mentioned in suttas , but by trying to make it logical it has indeed led to much misunderstanding. It has become a thing for intellectuals to argue and analyze , and a point for vedics/vedantics to point at and say "here, we have something better".
Nope. It means nothingness. There is literally nothing that exists.
Contemplate this. This is an impossible action.
In Buddhism that is the wrong view of nihilism.
Buddhism is the middle way.
Study the Heart Sutra taught by the Buddha if you want to understand emptiness.
@@saddha1 If Nirvana means anything it's that nothing ever happened.
@@Aipocalypse-ut7du No Nibbana means the "deathless", the unconstructed.