How to understand that emptiness is not nothingness, but emptiness is a kind of existence?

There is this classic quote in "The Three-Body Problem", which has always been on the list of various books:Emptiness is not nothingness, emptiness is a kind of existence。When I watched "The Three-Body Problem", I didn't have time to read the meaning of this sentence carefully, and I was blindly immersed in the storyline.

Now that I think about it, I realize that things are not simple, haha.

It seems to me that emptiness is indeed not nothing, but a sense of absolute and complete freedom. This is also involved in Zhang Defen's "Meet the Unknown Self". When someone asks me who I am, what do I do?

I will say my name, my age, and only list as in"Me"The object in front of it. Height and weight, what I like and what I hate ......I'm sure many people are like me. But in reality, these are externalized manifestations of "you".

So"Me"Who the hell is it? "Me"Where does it exist? Where will "I" go?

When I keep discarding the original"The boundaries between self and others"When I went back to the end, what I felt was not the dead silence of nothingness, but the emptiness that included all matter, life, and thought. "Everything has a way, like a dream bubble"Something in all its forms, when you go to its roots, you will find that its nature is emptiness.

If the essence of all things is not"Empty"But something else, then it is equivalent to saying that the world is like a cup that has been filled with water, which has lost its value in itself, and which can no longer contain any other form of color. So what else is wonderful about this world?

Emptiness is not nothingness, emptiness is a kind of existence, and you have to fill yourself with the existence of emptiness. The world depends on how you look at it, the good and the bad, the gentle and the hateful, are all reflections of your heart.

Actually, I'd love to leave a blank space for you to experience for yourself. Hahaha. Well, let's get down to business.

The predecessors are above, and there are already high theories; At the end of this study, I dare not make a mistake, but just make some additions for your reference.

Whether 'emptiness' is 'nothing', and what is the relationship between 'emptiness' and 'nothing', was particularly fiercely debated in the Wei and Jin dynastiesWhoever talks about it will say that it is empty; Whoever speaks of emptiness must talk about existence or not.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, Buddhism spread eastward. In order to facilitate the spread of Buddhist scriptures in Dongtu, the monks of the Wei and Jin dynasties often used a method that was later called "Geyi", that is, using some terms and concepts in the Taoist system to interpret the ideas of Buddhist scriptures, or clouds

With the number of things in the scriptures, it is proposed to be equipped with foreign books, which is an example of life and interpretation, which is called the meaning of the grid.

At that time, the situation was as follows: the general public did not have a high level of education and could not understand the idea of "emptiness" at all, which led many monks to directly equate the concept of "emptiness" in Buddhist scriptures with Taoist "nothingness" in order to facilitate the teaching of Buddhism. There was such a record in "The Biography of High Monks":

There are often guests who listen to the lectures, it is difficult to understand the truth, and when they move back and forth, they are full of doubts. Far is to lead Zhuangzi Yi to the class, so the confused know". What is being said here is that the broad masses of working people at that time could not understand what the Bible was talking about, and the more they listened, the more they doubted.

When the monks saw it, they had no choice but to use the things in the "Zhuangzi" to make an analogy, and everyone finally understood. What is the main idea of the book "Zhuangzi"? It is precisely the 'none' mentioned by the subject.

Although this method is conducive to the popularization of Buddhist scriptures, it has also caused various misunderstandings of Buddhist theories among the general public, and the classification of 'emptiness' into the concept of 'nothingness' is one of the main misunderstandings. This misunderstanding continues to this day, hence the subject's question. For the subject's question, we modern people naturally have unique interpretations from different perspectives such as mathematics, logic, philosophy, psychology, etc., but as early as the Jin Dynasty, there were many great thinkers who had profound insights into this, and some insights were far beyond today's people.

Among them, the one who made an outstanding contribution to this was the great thinker of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: a Daolin

Zhi Daolin, the single-word name 'escape', known as Lin Gong, the founder of Buddhism "Prajna Learning", is one of the "Six Masters of Prajna". Although he was a Buddhist, he was not limited to Buddhist scriptures and had an in-depth study of Taoist thought. He once argued with Guo Xiang, a Taoist master-level figure, and disagreed with Guo Xiang in one word, so he became famous all over the world, so the aristocratic and wealthy families at that time rushed to invite him to debate.

In his famous work "The Theory of Instant Color", he has the following topic: "The nature of the husband is not self-colored, the color is not self-existent, although the color is empty." I don't know it, but I know it.

However, to find its meaning, it is not vacuum. It is the color of cause and effect, and there is from fate. If it is not self-existent, it is called empty. ”

Emptiness is existence, existence is emptiness, which can be understood on this basis, and the basic purpose of this sentence in Buddhism is the concept of emptiness in all things, which is to make us understand that everything has no eternal embodiment, and everything will be scattered, teaching us not to be attached to all things, so that the body and mind are not at ease. As a result, some people talk about emptiness but love emptiness, but in fact, there is no difference between loving the world and loving emptiness, and it is the same as clinging to it and not letting go.

People who love emptiness abandon everything in order to seek an empty word, and in the end there is still an idea of "emptiness" that cannot be removed. As everyone knows, everything is empty, and the idea of abandonment and non-abandonment is empty, and the thought of renunciation is no longer empty, and the thought of loving emptiness is already "being". It shows that existence and voidness are not hindered and are the same.

Those who are attached to some do not understand that "existence is emptiness", and those who are attached to emptiness do not understand that "emptiness is existence".

Everything has cause and effect, don't be too obsessed with emptiness and existence, so that the real emptiness can be both existence and emptiness.

From the source:

Color, emptiness, and emptiness are one and the same. Color is the result or illusion of emptiness through a certain "cause and effect", and all colors are produced or transformed from emptiness through a certain "cause and effect", that is to say, color is the representation or appearance or appearance of emptiness under certain conditions of cause and effect. Color comes from emptiness, and all colors have emptiness, and emptiness is the origin or essence of color.

All colors can return to their true nature, that is, to emptiness. When the color (or sentient beings) return to emptiness or origin, they become Buddhas.

There is a cup, we don't see the cup itself, we only see the color, and the color is a subjective feeling, a product of the mind, a delusion.

In other words, in the Heart Sutra, color is emptiness, and emptiness is color. Emptiness is the same as color, equal, 0 0, emptiness.

The simplest saying is what is not pulled.

Summary. Color is emptiness, and emptiness is color. Colour arises from awareness, emptiness. However, there is no emptiness and nothing is emptiness. Is there empty space, and there is empty air again.

What is emptiness, whether emptiness is nothingness, and whether nothingness will exist.

Color is emptiness, and emptiness is color. Colour arises from awareness, emptiness. However, there is no emptiness and nothing is emptiness. Is there empty space, and there is empty air again.

In fact, all the detachment in metaphysics is starved, and the edges and corners are smoothed out by the cruel reality, and the remaining helpless sleekness. There is no data, it is the emptiness in the true sense of the word, and emptiness means that there is data, and the data is meaningless and empty, and so on.

As the saying goes, when the real is fake, the false is also true, and there is nowhere to be done. True and false, empty and empty, how to be accurate.

Emptiness is not nothingness, it is not non-existence. Emptiness means that everything depends on causes and conditions and is combined, and there is no true self-nature. When the cause and conditions change, the manuscript will also change, and it will no longer be the same thing.

There are many people who say that emptiness is nothingness, and there is no filial piety, which is very wrong. Emptiness means that there is no boredom and there is self-nature, and it needs to rely on all kinds of causes and conditions. When karma changes, things change. There is no such thing as immutability, so it is all empty, not nothing, not non-existent.

"Emptiness" and "nothingness" are not the same concept.

"Emptiness" is not the same as "nothing", it does not mean that there is nothing to say, but it is a state, empty as it is.

Although there are things, they are of no use, and the white expanse of the land is really clean, and it is full of all kinds of things.

"Emptiness" is a state that we should achieve, look down on many things, look down on all our troubles, and don't care too much.

"Nothing", on the other hand, is a quantitative concept, which means that there is nothing to carry.

Yes or no, is a quantitative word.

And emptiness is a word that argues with the state of the state.

What we have to do now is to cultivate, to treat things as nothing.

Looking at these things, you can understand what they really mean, and if there is no meaning, it is empty.

The same is true of spiritual things, which may not be visible to the naked eye, and it may seem like nothing with the eyes, but the spiritual world is very rich and full of all kinds of connotations.

The spirit is more colorful, and this is not "empty", but full of all kinds of spiritual things.

It is necessary to distinguish between the two and improve one's own realm.