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般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 2.31

般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 2.31

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2.31

由此二句,經作是言,「色自性空,非色滅空」。如應者言,若依勝義,諸法皆空都無有者,初雖可爾,理未必然。真、俗相形,俗無真滅;色、空相待,色滅空亡;故非本來色體空也。勝空者言,據實此空非空、不空,翻迷對色悟說色空,非此空言即定為空,空亦空故。

By virtue of these two lines, the sūtra speaks thus: 'Form is empty by its own nature; it is not empty through the destruction of form.' The proponent of conforming [teaching] says: 'If, according to paramārtha-satya, all phenomena are completely empty and nonexistent, this may initially seem acceptable, but logically it is not necessarily so. Ultimate and conventional mutually delineate one another: when the conventional is absent, the ultimate is destroyed. Form and emptiness are mutually dependent: when form is destroyed, emptiness perishes. Hence the substance of form is not originally empty.' The proponent of supreme emptiness says: 'In reality, this emptiness is neither empty nor non-empty; inverting delusion and confronting form, awakening speaks of form being empty. It is not that this word "emptiness" is definitively empty, because emptiness is also empty.'

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