october9

The void, shunyata, among the four

fundamental Buddhist notions (the

three others being impermanence,

interdependence and suffering) is

certainly the most mysterious and hard

to grasp. What is this immense edifice

of experience and thought that in the

end only opens up on an absence of

substance? What would be the

foundation of that edifice and of the

mind that build it? If the void is the only

reality that isn’t illusory, who escapes

the net of all maya? Who has cast this

net? Can one live over a dizzying void?

Can we imagine a dream without a

dreamer? The void is a scientific notion.

We are empty, the matter that

composes us is, so to speak, empty.

虛無, shunyata (空),

在佛教的四個基本觀念中

(其他三個是無常,因果關係, 和苦)

確實最為神秘, 最難理解.

難道這無窮盡經驗與思維所堆砌的堡壘,

最終只是開啟了所有內涵的淨空?

那麼這堡壘的基礎是什麼,

建造堡壘的心靈又以什麼為基礎?

如果空無是唯一非幻象的事實,

誰又能逃出這幻境的網? 是誰撒下了這張網?

人能在這昏眩的空無中存活嗎?

我們能如何去想像一個沒有做夢者的夢?

空無是一個科學的概念. 我們是空的,

究竟來說, 組成我們的物質也是空的.