VA + CA: Meditation and Emptiness An introductory talk on Buddhism, given in Esquel, Argentina. What does what we’re going to do tonight have to do with the teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni? The Buddha was a person who lived in what is today India and Nepal, 2,500 years ago. There’s a great deal of confusion and many conceptions about what Buddhism is, but probably the simplest way to put it is that it’s the teaching of a person who found a way to exist beyond suffering. And