Finding Fulfillment on the Empty Path: Buddhist Teachings on Emptiness

Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. CT

October 29 – November 19 (4 classes)

In this transformative four-week course, we’ll explore the profound Buddhist teaching of emptiness as a path to freedom, fulfillment, and compassionate living. Each class combines teachings, real-world applications, mindfulness practices, and guided meditation to help participants integrate the concept of emptiness into everyday life. From how we relate to work, play, and relationships, to how we understand the self, this course offers practical tools for living with greater awareness, ease, and authenticity. No prior experience with Buddhism is required, just an open heart and curious mind.

Each session includes a blend of engaging teaching, relatable examples, interactive exercises, Q&A, mindfulness training, and guided meditation.

This course is designed to be both intellectually enriching and experientially grounding, providing tools to bring the wisdom of emptiness into everyday life for newcomers and seasoned practitioners alike.

See below for a full course syllabus.

Registrants will receive on-demand access to recording(s) that can be viewed for two weeks following the conclusion of the program. Late registrants will receive recording links to all missed sessions.

Billy Wynne is the author of The Empty Path: Finding Fulfillment through the Radical Art of Lessening. A student of Buddhism and mindfulness for 30 years, he received meditation teaching certification under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach and lay Zen Buddhist ordination from the Zen Center of Denver, where he now teaches classes and serves on the board. He lives in Denver with his wife, children, and shih-poos, Oscar and Archie. Visit him online at https://billywynne.com.

Course Syllabus

Class 1 – Embracing Emptiness in Daily Life Explore the foundational Buddhist teaching of emptiness and its power to free the mind from habitual reactivity and fixed ideas. This class will guide participants in recognizing emptiness not as a void, but as a spacious awareness that transforms how we experience the world, time, and thought itself.

Class 2 – Finding Fulfillment in Work and Play Discover how an understanding of emptiness can open the door to deeper joy, creativity, and meaning in our everyday routines. Whether at work, in creative expression, or in leisure, this session will show how letting go of rigid expectations can allow presence and purpose to arise more naturally.

Class 3 – Cultivating Compassionate Relationships This class explores how emptiness helps redefine our relationships by loosening the grip of ego, blame, and unrealistic demands. Through reflective practices, we will examine how embracing freedom and responsibility fosters compassion, empathy, and authentic connection.

Class 4 – Walking the Empty Path Bringing the journey full circle, this final session will focus on applying the insights of emptiness to our personal identity and sense of self. With practical tools and contemplative exercises, participants will learn how to return to the truth of who they are beneath the busyness of modern life

Program Format

This is a live, interactive online program that will also be recorded. Our goal is to send recordings to you within two business days, often sooner. Recordings will be available for on-demand viewing for two weeks following the date of the final class.

Join online via ​a Zoom link that will be emailed upon your registration. Please download Zoom for free at zoom.us/download, and test your connection at zoom.us/test. New to Zoom? Check out www.theosophical.org/FAQ. Please email webinars@theosophical.org for further information.

You can also watch Billy Wynne’s free talk, “The Essence of the Empty Path: Finding Fulfillment through the Radical Art of Lessening,” via livestream on Thursday, October 23.