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仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經 1.21

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1.21

The Buddha said: "Great King! Wisdom illuminates the true nature as neither existing nor non-existing. Why is this? Because the dharmatā is empty. That is to say, form, feeling, perception, karmic formations, consciousness; the twelve sense bases, the eighteen elements; the person's six elements, the twelve links of dependent origination; the two truths, and the four truths are all completely empty. These various dharmas and so forth are immediately born and immediately extinguished, immediately existing and immediately empty; so it is from kṣaṇa to kṣaṇa. Why is this? In a single thought-moment there are ninety kṣaṇas, and in a single kṣaṇa there are nine hundred births and cessations; because all conditioned dharmas are completely empty. Through the profound Prajñāpāramitā, one illuminates and sees that all dharmas are entirely empty: internal emptiness, external emptiness, internal-external emptiness, emptiness of emptiness, great emptiness, ultimate emptiness, conditioned emptiness, unconditioned emptiness, beginningless emptiness, absolute emptiness, dispersed emptiness, nature emptiness, self-mark emptiness, emptiness of all dharmas, emptiness of Prajñāpāramitā, cause emptiness, and fruit-of-buddhahood emptiness. Emptiness is empty because of emptiness. Conditioned dharmas exist through the aggregation of dharmas, exist through the aggregation of feeling, exist through the aggregation of names, exist through the aggregation of causes, exist through the aggregation of effects, exist because of the six destinies, exist because of the ten stages, and exist because of the fruit of buddhahood; all exist."

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