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瑞欣提問說，靈魂可以滅，那之前說能量不滅有無衝突？

我的回答是沒有衝突，錄影檔的不一不異是確立佛法思想，如果靈魂不滅就是能量的轉移問題，這又是另一個話題。

假如，我有大福報，靈魂會跟著升級到天人的能量，假如我造大惡業，必須入三惡道，靈魂可以從人變豬變螞蟻，這樣的能量轉換是巨大的。

不管變天人或者螻蟻，還是起了變化，所以不能說是「一」的固定體，中觀一直要說明的就是變化，因緣會起變化。

如果靈魂可以是固定不滅的，那業力說也無法成立。

這樣就變成做好事跟做壞事是一樣的待遇！

能量如果被證實是不滅，那人們對自己要做的

事就會小心，因為好的跟壞的行為都會產生對自己的牽動力。

能量可以轉移，那太棒了！做好事可以累積，做錯了事可以迴轉向上，人生只要願意努力，大家都有機會，這才是佛法，不是只有懺悔而已！

Grace asks, “Doesn’t that spirit is not eternal contradict ‘immortality of energy’ we talked of before?”

My reply is ‘No’.

My statement on Youtube video confirms Buddhist teachings of “without unity(anekārtha) and without diversity(anānārtha)”.

As for whether some spirit can be permanent, it is another issue about energy transfer.

Supposed great good karmic results can advance one’s spirit to become a deva, and great bad ones descend it to Three Evil Paths(realms of hell, hungry ghost, animal). The energy involved in transforming a human’s spirit to a pig’s or an ant’s is sure to be tremendously huge.

Whether being transformed to be a deva or an ant, its essence has changed. And therefore there is not a static essence, ‘Unity’. This is what Mūlamadhyamakakārikā tries to stress all the time: essences in all phenomena are not static or definite. They will change, and so will ‘Causes and Conditions.

If spirit is eternal, the theory of karma will be invalid. And good deeds and bad deeds will be paid all the same.

If ‘immortality of energy’ is verified to be true, people will pay attention to what they do because all their behaviors, good or bad, will become forces to affect themselves.

It is great that energy is transferrable! Thus, good deeds can be accumulated, wrong deeds can be mitigated and turned around upward. Everyone has his chance in life as long as he is willing to make efforts. Other than repentance, this(everyone has his opportunity) is what Buddhism really advocates.

Ya-ling says it is impossible for one to travel through time and space to kill his grandfather. Because, after traveling back to the past, he may not know his grandfather or is not back as a human at all. It needs ‘I’ at the present (‘I-Now’), which can be viewed as ‘Unity’(a static and definite essence), to go back to kill my grandfather. And it needs all requirements, such as condition changes and energy transfer, to be satisfied to make me my grandfather’s grandson. So there is not a static essence, ‘Unity’. The notion of ‘Unity’ is invalid and therefore confirms ‘immortality of energy’.

“Is my interpretation right, Master?” asks Ya-ling.

Translated by Grace Tsai

Proofread by Sophiea Kuo