Sunyata | July 14, 2004

The non substantial and undependable quality of experience which is also seen as total freedom is called Sunyata in Sanskrit and can be literally translated into emptiness. The Buddhist tradition has sometimes stressed freedom from the phenomenal world, and at other times freedom to experience completely the richness of life. In either case Sunyata functions less as an attribute of ultimate reality than as a practical religious designation of the real possibility for ultimate fulfillment.