In this episode Professor Thurman explains that a Buddhist concept of "emptiness" or "voidness" doesn't mean a "no state" apart from everything, or "nothingness". Emptiness means that everything is empty of any non-relational isolated component. Emptiness is relativity, and we are totally interconnected (mentally and physically) beings.
This podcast was recorded on July 1, 2015 at Menla Mountain Retreat Center as part of a retreat called "Shakyamuni Buddha's Inner Sciences & His Medicine Buddha Healing Science" with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang & Robert Thurman.