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Emptiness in the Pali Canon

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
SUNNA SUTTA:

"Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty. And what is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self? The eye is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. Forms... Eye-consciousness... Eye-contact is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.085.than.html


PHENA SUTTA:

"Form is like a glob of foam;
feeling, a bubble;
perception, a mirage;
fabrications, a banana tree;
consciousness, a magic trick —
this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun.
However you observe them, appropriately examine them,
they're empty, void to whoever sees them appropriately."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.095.than.html


CULA-SUNNATA SUTTA:

"He discerns that 'Whatever disturbances that would exist based on the effluent of sensuality... the effluent of becoming... the effluent of ignorance, are not present. And there is only this modicum of disturbance: that connected with the six sensory spheres, dependent on this very body with life as its condition.' He discerns that 'This mode of perception is empty of the effluent of sensuality... becoming... ignorance. And there is just this non-emptiness: that connected with the six sensory spheres, dependent on this very body with life as its condition.' Thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there. Whatever remains, he discerns as present: 'There is this.' And so this, his entry into emptiness, accords with actuality, is undistorted in meaning, pure — superior & unsurpassed."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.121.than.html
 
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