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Re:芭蕉树·明镜台·了别性
Question. Your Holiness, you said that all phenomena are subject to<br>impermanence. Is the pure, unobstructed nature of mind also subject to<br>impermanence? Does this nature of mind have a birth and a death?<br><br>His Holiness: When we speak about the nature of mind in a Buddhist<br>context, we have to understand that it can be understood on two different<br>levels—the ultimate level of reality, where the nature of mind is<br>understood in terms of its emptiness of inherent existence, and the relative,<br>or conventional, level, which refers to the mere quality of luminosity,<br>knowing and experience.<br>If your question relates to the mind’s conventional nature, then just<br>as the mind itself goes through a process of change and flux, so does the<br>nature of mind. This already indicates that the nature of mind is an<br>impermanent phenomenon. However, if you are asking about the<br>mind’s emptiness, then we need to consider that even though the mind’s<br>emptiness is not a transient phenomenon—that is, not subject to causes<br>and conditions—it cannot be posited independent of a given object.<br><br>In other words, the emptiness of mind cannot exist independently of<br>mind itself. The emptiness of mind is nothing other than its utter lack<br>of intrinsic, or inherent, existence. Therefore, as different states of mind<br>come and go, new instances of the emptiness of mind also occur.<br><br><br>*******<br><br>我能看懂个大概. 我没有能力翻译. 拷贝过来, 希望没有跑题. <br> |
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