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# 仁王般若經疏 1.119

仁王般若經疏 1.119

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [1.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1707.1.119)

問：空與空空有何等異？答：空破五陰，空空破空。如服藥能破病，病破已藥亦應出，若藥不出即復是病。以空滅諸煩惱病，恐空復為患，是故以空捨空，故名空空也。

> Question: What is the difference between emptiness and the emptiness of emptiness? Answer: Emptiness shatters the five aggregates; the emptiness of emptiness shatters emptiness. Just as taking medicine can cure disease, once the disease is cured the medicine should also be expelled; if the medicine is not expelled, it becomes a disease again. Using emptiness to eliminate the diseases of all defilements, fearing that emptiness may again become an affliction, one therefore abandons emptiness with emptiness; hence it is called the emptiness of emptiness.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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- [大智度論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.pancavimsatisahasrika!mahaprajnaparamitopadesa*zh-kumarajiva.31.126) — Classical Chinese

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