Definition of "sunyata" []

• Emptiness, in terms of a meditative state; an Eastern concept of a high meditative state of calm and freedom from distraction. (noun)
• The cosmic void; in the East-West dialogue, an Eastern term for metaphysics of nothingness. (noun)

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• "Robina explained that emptiness, which is derived from the Sanskrit word sunyata where sunya literally means zero or nothing, does not imply Nihilism -- that nothing matters -- but in fact, quite the opposite."
• "Rather, the Sanksrit word for nothingness, "sunyata," is derived from a term meaning "to swell" (quoted in"
• "The void, so described, is not the Buddhist Void sunyata, but the void created by the intellectual knowledge humanity has acquired through empirical observation of ourselves, the world around us and ultimately the cosmos stretching into infinity both as macrocosm and microcosm."