229 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 1: Emptiness
The Zen Studies Podcast
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The Heart Sutra on Emptiness
The teaching of anata was not intended as a metaphysical or philosophical observation about the nature of reality. Instead, it was a method of practice for dismantling our powerful delusion about self-nature. A few hundred years after the Buddha's death, there were further developments of the concept of shunya ta and it became central in Mahayana Buddhism. One of the most important Buddhist texts on emptiness is the Heart Sutra from the first century CE.
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