Empty

Sunnata/ Emptiness:

"As a doctrinal term it refers, in Theravada, exclusively to the Anatta doctrine, i.e., the unsubstantiality of all phenomena: 'Void is the world... because it is void of a self and anything belonging to a self'."

"This is the central doctrine of Buddhism, without understanding of which a real knowledge of Buddhism is altogether impossible. ..... the Anatta-Doctrine has been clearly and unreservedly taught only by the Buddha... Whosoever has not penetrated this impersonality of all existence, and does not comprehend that in reality there exists only this continually self-consuming process of arising and passing bodily and mental phenomena, and that there is no separate Ego-entity within or without this process, he will not be able to understand Buddhism, i.e. the teaching of the 4 Noble Truths, in the right light."

Buddhadasa teaches that: "We can contemplate dependent co-origination, we can observe impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self in all things; and we can see the illusoriness of feelings. We apply our practice in 'ordinary times' during moments of sense contact, and at the moment of death."