增加說明4 Supplementary Note 4

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我在讀書會上問我的學員說：
如果有人跟你們說：
你們跟的人修錯了，
一切都是「無所得」才對！

那你們怎麼回答，
他們一下子都反應不過來？

「無所得」的理論是建立在佛法空法的說明與運用，
假設一切都是無所得，也沒有說佛法的必要？

捨凡夫入聖證就是從凡夫的得，轉為聖人的得，

「無所得」不能用於否定別人的成果上，

否則，有入定跟沒有入定的體驗都是一樣的，那何必苦苦在那裡熬三年？

必苦苦在那裡熬三年？

「無所得」是建構在空法嚴謹的理論上，
不是唯心論高興怎麼講就怎麼講，
隨心所欲。

半寄

Supplementary Note 4

At the study club, I asked my pupils.

“If someone tells you,
‘The person you are following is practicing incorrectly. Everything is ultimately without attainment—that is the correct view.’

How would you respond?”

They were momentarily at a loss for words.

The doctrine of “without attainment” is grounded in the Buddhist teaching and application of śūnyatā. But if everything is simply assumed to be without attainment, does that mean there is no need to talk about Buddhist practice or the Dharma at all?

The transition from an ordinary person to a sage is precisely a transformation from the kind of “attainment” associated with the ordinary mind to the realization attained by a sage.

Therefore, “without attainment” cannot be used to deny or dismiss another person’s genuine accomplishments in practice.

Otherwise, the experience of entering deep meditative absorption would be no different from never having entered it at all. 

If that were the case, why would anyone endure years of arduous practice?

“Without attainment” is not a slogan that can be used however one wishes. 

It is a teaching grounded in the rigorous philosophical framework of śūnyatā. It should not be turned into a form of subjective idealism in which one simply says whatever one happens to believe.

The principle must be understood within the complete framework of Buddhist doctrine and practice—not according to personal preference.

Master Banji