How to understand the "emptiness" in Buddhism? -on the origin of emptiness [emptiness is not "nothing" or a denial of "being", and emptiness and being are dialectical unity. As the Heart Sutra says: color is different from emptiness, and emptiness is different from color; Color is empty, and empty is color. This is a fact. ]

"Origin Method" is the most important theoretical cornerstone of Buddhism. This law can be used like this: "Where there is, there is, in this life, there is in the next life;" If there is nothing, there is nothing; if there is nothing, there is nothing; if there is nothing, there is nothing. It means that any phenomenon occurs, changes and disappears according to a certain set of causes (conditions that play a fundamental and internal role) and causes (conditions that play an auxiliary and external role). In short, all phenomena are temporary collections of specific conditions. Just as a car is made up of various parts, all beings live by the collection of "five aggregates" (body and mind), and they stand upright like three bundles of reeds that support each other. If one is removed, the other two will fall, and if the other is removed, the other will also fall. The word "this" refers to the cause and "there" refers to the result. From the perspective of time, it is the interweaving of vertical and horizontal causality: from the perspective of both the present and the present, a thing is the result of various conditions, and there is no such phenomenon without conditional support, which is called "full-time causality"; Judging from the passage of time, the present thing is the result of a certain condition "cause" that has been extinguished in the past, and it is also the cause of something in the future. All phenomena are in the process of birth and death, and the causal chain is changing. " This is called "different cause and effect". For example, our life is currently maintained by air and diet, and our body and mind are constantly changing in life and death and metabolism. Obviously, the law of origin is the basic principle of ancient naive dialectics and the eternal law of all cosmic devices summarized through philosophical speculation.

The "sex" in the "sexual emptiness" in the "sexual emptiness" refers to self-nature. "Self-nature" refers to a consistent and unchanging material attribute. Self-nature refers to: independence, singleness and eternity, with at least these three attributes. Independence: in other words, its existence does not depend on other conditions and things around it; Single: that is to say, it has no distinction between master and slave or main branch, and it is single and inseparable; Eternity: something that will never change. "Sexual emptiness" means that everything in this universe has no eternal self. It is not that there is nothing, nor is it to deny the existence of everything.

Master Zong Kaba, the founder of Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, is the greatest Buddhist in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. His explanation of the "emptiness origin" of Buddhism is unprecedented, and he is known as "the first case of emptiness in a hundred generations". He said in "Rizan, the Origin of the Essence of Buddhism" (hereinafter referred to as Rizan): "What is karma has no self." It means that all things born of karma, relative things, have no self. Everything exists for a reason, and with this reason, there is this thing, and without this reason, there is no such thing. Therefore, things with karma have no self-nature, and there will be no self-nature.

For example, a fruit needs seeds, soil, moisture, sunlight, air, climate and other conditions suitable for its survival in order to bear fruit. Everything is like this, and this is the origin. Anything that comes from a reason is incomplete without a reason.

According to the meso-theory, both Buddhism and secularism, as long as they exist, are the combination of karma. Without karma, there is no "sex" and "essence". "Middle view" means the original appearance or state of everything. This "original state" is a natural state that has not been artificially modified, added or reduced. An opinion is a wise opinion. In people's thoughts and concepts, nothing is "purely objective" or "purely natural", but it is painted with a layer of subjective color and artificially "processed" through addition and subtraction. The "intermediate" without subjective tendency (the original "neutral" of things) has lost its original appearance in secular wisdom. The "middle view" is an insight that conforms to the actual situation, which naturally excludes fiction and shows the true colors of things.

The main idea of Li Zan Zong Kaba is this: Buddha, the core of all the good laws that you said are beneficial to all sentient beings is "the emptiness of all laws", and the most powerful evidence to prove the emptiness is the existence of various relationships. Your denial of self-existence is the affirmation of original existence. Although we can't find the self-nature, it doesn't prevent the existence of the original phenomena that make a difference, such as the cycle of birth and death, the world and the world, and the cause of good and evil. Unlike some people, they believe that there is self when they see the phenomenon of origin. Speaking of emptiness, they think everything is like a mirage, illusory, and emptiness and existence cannot be unified. Only the true Buddha wisdom realizes that origin and emptiness are unified and they are not contradictory in dialectics. "Origin" is a phenomenon, and "emptiness" is its essence. Therefore, the phenomenal "existence" of a thing and its self-emptiness (nothingness) can be organically combined. In the teachings of the Buddha, it is the most remarkable to understand the source and get rid of obsession and doubt, but the "emptiness" advocated in this paper is not to deny the existence of the source object and the various functions produced by the dependence of things, and the source you advocate is not the absolute self. Everything is a specific phenomenon of origin. Without the source, it is as impossible as a flower born in nothing. If things are born out of independent self, it is in contradiction with the actual situation of relative existence of various relationships. Therefore, the existence of self-nature of things is impossible. From the universe to the particle world, there has never been a thing that is not the origin and relative existence of all factors. Therefore, without something that is independent and unchanging, there is nothing that is not empty.

Everything is analyzed, and the original self does not exist at all. Under the existence of fate, everything will come into being, and the existence or destruction of things is caused by its fate and conditions. Without self, this thing can be born, and there can be something in the air. Origin itself is sexual emptiness, but sexual emptiness can produce origin. These two opposing things are completely logical in the middle view. This is because the existence of all things in the universe produced by fate is essentially only the existence of these phenomena, and this "existence" is false (secular "existence", temporary existence). Therefore, things of origin must have no self. It is precisely because everything has no independent and unchanging self that everything can change. So, this "you" is empty. Because "the harmony of all sides" itself is the non-self expression of things, emptiness is not outside things, and emptiness in nature is seen because of existence in phenomena, so this emptiness is also empty because of existence. Air has no obstacles, and air does not destroy it. Empty is one, everything is there, and empty is nothing. This is the truth that "the origin of space is mutual cause and effect". Because all existence is regarded as the "existence" of the original phenomenon, not the "existence" of the independent and unchanging self, but the "nothingness" of the independent and unchanging self, instead of the "nothingness" of the original phenomenon, it will not fall into the error abyss of absolute emptiness, which is why the Buddha who revealed the truth said that he was rational and invincible. Secular heretics, some say empty without knowing the existence of things, and some say empty without knowing self. Only the right view of the Buddha excludes the real existence with the existence of phenomena and the absolute emptiness with self-nature. The air is impeccable and the truth is harmonious, so it is invincible.

Origin itself is to understand sexual emptiness from the edge, but some people regard this superficial phenomenon as the real thing and the opposite of sexual emptiness in the name of origin. They think that from the name of this thing, that is, from the superficial phenomenon, this is the real karma. How can it be said to be empty? But from a practical point of view, regardless of its essence, such as one tree is not a forest and two trees are not forests, where does the concept of "forest" come from? Ten trees cannot be a forest. Then can you tell me exactly how many trees are a forest? There is no way to determine how many trees there should be in a forest. Pulling one tree from the forest is not a forest tree, and pulling two trees is not a forest. Where did this forest come from after it was arranged one by one? Therefore, this essence is discovered in this way, and so is its self-nature. The search result is not found. This is how everything exists.

The origin of emptiness is the essence of Buddhism, and the wisdom of observing emptiness is the highest realm of Buddha's wisdom. This theory of Buddha can cut off the root of all evil. The root of evil is "perversion consciousness" (human separation consciousness), that is, human ignorance. This kind of Buddha's thought can remove people's ignorance, so it can cut off the root of all evil, that is, the root of all faults. The fundamental purpose of Buddhism is to get happiness from suffering. The root of suffering of all beings is greed, anger and delusion, and the root of all troubles is delusion, which is an illusory sense of perversion. If this root is removed, all suffering will be far away. Thus nirvana, that is, the silence of trouble, the silence of previous suffering and its roots and the silence of trouble, that is, these two kinds of "silence" are gone, eliminating suffering and its causes. Without the root of bitterness and bitterness, the result is silence and happiness. Eliminating pain and its causes is the principle of nirvana. The most fundamental purpose of Buddhism is to get rid of suffering and pain and achieve nirvana.