Dear Frank,

the concept of emptiness (Pali suññatā/su~n~nataa, Sanskrit śūnyatā) is also found in the Pali texts.

MN117 speaks of two forms of right view, the mundane and the transcendental. Personally, I would avoid unnecessary mixing of the two.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, frank wrote:

Parts of it look like it would fit right in with the heart sutra (from mahayana), which goes something like:

In emptiness, there is no form, no feeling, no percption, no formations, no consciousness. there is no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, ... no nidanas of dependent origination up to aging and death, no dukkha, no cause of dukkha, no cessation of dukkha, no path leading to cessation of dukkha, no understanding, no attainment.
(one could easily see how this fragment fits in...)
[in emptiness], there is nothing given, nothing offered, nothing sacrificed; no fruit or result of good and bad actions; no this world, no other world; no mother, no father; no beings who are reborn spontaneously; no good and virtuous recluses and brahmins in the world who have themselves realized by direct knowledge and declare this world and the other world."