śūnya, in the context of buddha dharma, primarily means "empty", or "void," but also means "zero," and "nothing," [7] and derives from the root śvi, meaning "hollow" -tā is a suffix denoting a quality or state of being, equivalent to English "-ness"

Godai (五大, lit. "five – great, large, physical, form") are the five elements in Japanese Buddhist thought of earth (chi), water (sui), fire (ka), wind (fu), and void (ku).

Zen meditation on the void leads outside of the phenomenal realm to the transcendental realm. This is why Sigung Ho switched from Taoism to Zen.

Aug 14, 2015 · Buddhism expresses it in two ways that might seem contradictory. I want to combine them and refer to it as the Shining Void. One concept is Shunyata. Shunyata is often translated as emptiness. This leads to some confusion. I don’t think of empty as like the number zero, I think of it as a vast and beautiful emptiness, like the sky.

In Zen art, an ensō (円 相, "circular form") [1] is a circle hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express the Zen mind, which is associated with enlightenment, emptiness, freedom, and the state of no-mind.

Jan 14, 2013 · I sometimes go with a friend to a Zen meditation class and the Japanese monk who teaches there keeps talking about ‘the void’. Can you explain what this means please? Most of our life we spend channeling mental energy into our attention.

In calligraphy, Zen Buddhism represents the great Void (Sunyata) by the circular enso symbol. Śūnyatā , शून्यता ( Sanskrit meaning "Emptiness" or "Voidness"), is an important Buddhist teaching which claims that nothing possesses essential, enduring identity because everything is interconnected in a chain of co-becoming and in a ...

Aug 13, 2011 · The goal of the meditating person is to to reach “The Void”. The word “void” means an empty place. A mind that reached “The Void”, would be a mind that was empty and clear of all thoughts and desires. According to Happeh Theory, the void state of mind can be reached by other methods.

fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don’t realize is that their own mind is the void.” – Huang-po. Huang-po (Huangbo Xiyun) was an influential Chinese Zen Master, and the teacher of Lin-chi (Rinzai) during the Tang Dynasty.

Sep 13, 2014 · When the sutra says: “Form is not different from void, nor void from form,” that is precisely what it means. ‘Again, it is said: “Perception is form. The perception of that which cannot be seen is void.”