空 Śūnyatā

 南禪朋友好！

      有大德問起「空」是什麼？

我個人依據《中論》的「八不」濃縮成我個人想要探索的方向，

建立一套我自己要用的「空」思惟，

這樣子做長達30餘年，我常常去思索因緣裡的「空」常年建立

由淺至深的探討，「空」需要熟悉「緣」的條

件。

（也可以說；佛法「空」的認知建立在緣起。

思考緣起不能出現理論互相矛盾。）

《中觀27道題》進一步指出因緣的呈現與狀態-空。

半寄

Greetings, friends of NanZen!

Someone asked what "Śūnyatā" is.

I summarize and integrate "eight negations" in Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way into a set of "Śūnyatā" ideas as my own guides to investigate and practice "Śūnyatā".

I have been doing this for more than 30 years. I often contemplatethe "Śūnyatā" in the context of causes and conditions, and investigate it from shallow to deep all year round. In approaching the Buddhist idea of "Śūnyatā", it’s necessary to have a clear understanding of "conditions".

(That is to say, the comprehending of "Śūnyatā" in Buddhism is based on Dependent Origination. The ideas resulting from our contemplating Dependent Origination must not    contradict thories of "Śūnyatā")

Nagarjuna’s Middle Way: Mulamadhyamakakarika supplements further that phenomena resulting from causes and conditions andtheir states are Śūnyatā.

 

 Master Banji

Translated by Grace Jui-hsin Tsai

 

 (簡言之,「空」的定義就是「無不變性、無獨立性、無實在性」

印順導師《般若經講記》),「空」所否定的是事物

本質,並不否定事物的生滅變化現象及其世間作用, 絕非甚麼都

「沒有」! 正如夢中所見景象不真實,但不能因此而否定夢境曾

經出現及其影響。)

(擷取自香港佛門網)

 In short, the definition of "Śūnyatā" is "no immutability, noindependence, no reality" (Venerable Yinshun’s Lectures on the Maha-Prajna-Sutra). What "Śūnyatā" denies is the essence of things, but not the changing phenomena of emergence/cease of things in the world. All these are by no means "nothing"!

It’s like the scenes seen in dreams are unreal, but the occurrence and impact of dreams can’t be denied. (Excerpted from Buddhistdoor, Hongkong https://www.buddhistdoor.org/mingkok/%E7%A9%BA%E4%B8%8D%E6%98%AF%E7%84%A1%E4%B8%8A/)