Master Renqing: "Nature emptiness" and "Embroidered emptiness"

“Nature emptiness and "equality emptiness"

Almost all Buddhists will know that Buddhism talks about "emptiness", such as: "The four elements are empty", "all things are empty", etc., but many people can't understand it: "It is obvious that everything exists, whyIs itIt just means that it is empty?" This is mainly because we cannot figure out the difference between the two concepts "emptiness" and "emptiness".What people generally think of as "emptiness" means "empty" and "nothing is left", just like if all the furniture in the house is moved out, it will say: "The house is empty". If the entire void is processed and the sun, moon, stars, gas, dust, etc. are left, it will be considered as "empty"... It does not know that this is also a kind of "existence", "empty form", and "a kind of appearance", which is very different from the essential "emptiness" mentioned in Buddhism.

The "emptiness" of "all things are empty" in Buddhism is "empty nature", which refers to "a certain thing", and "nature" is "empty", which means: "all things are formed by the combination of causes and conditions, and one of the essence cannot be found.""Cause and condition" are changing all the time, and the temporary existence of things will eventually change."The harmony of cause and condition" means the "emptiness" of things.The so-called "all dharmas are born from causes and conditions, and are destroyed from causes and conditions" means the "emptiness of nature" of all dharmas, that is, "emptiness".For example, an apple is a temporary "phase" composed of elements such as "apple skin, core, meat, moisture, vitamins". Each element is not the apple itself. Apple is a real "existence", but its essence is "the union of causes and conditions", which is "emptiness of nature".

《The Shurangama Sutra says: "Empty comes from great enlightenment, like a fumes in the sea (ou)hair" (The empty appearance is born from consciousness, just like the bubbles that arise on the surface of the sea ),The "emptiness" here is a kind of "immortal emptiness", and the "awareness" of "great awakening" is the "emptiness of nature" in the essence of the principle.