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Not just a mystery, but a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The spiritual and transcendental experience of shunyata, the 'Void'.
N.B. Poor original recording.
Talk given in 1966.
This talk is part of the series Introducing Buddhism.
| 1. | Easter and spiritual rebirth (9:24) | |
| 2. | The mystery of shunyata ('voidness') - a transcendental experience (7:17) | |
| 3. | An experiential approach to Buddhism (4:11) | |
| 4. | The Princess' husband and the thirty-two kinds of voidness (3:41) | |
| 5. | The Perfection of Wisdom literature (4:26) | |
| 6. | Four kinds of shunyata: i. Emptiness of the conditioned (samskrta-shunyata) (10:19) | |
| 7. | ii. Emptiness of the unconditioned (asamskrta-shunyata) (3:48) | |
| 8. | iii. Great Emptiness (maha-shunyata) (2:53) | |
| 9. | iv. Emptiness of emptiness (shunyata-shunyata) (5:33) | |
| 10. | The state only silence can express (5:28) |
Total running time: 57:00
