檢視 Emptiness 空性的原始碼

[[Image:Nagarjuna17.JPG|frame|Arya [[Nagarjuna]]]]
'''Emptiness''' (Skt. ''śūnyatā''; Tib. [[སྟོང་པོ་ཉིད་]], ''tongpa nyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''stong pa nyid'') — the absence of inherent existence in all phenomena, which was explained by the [[Buddha]] in the [[sutra]]s of the [[three turnings|second turning of the Wheel of Dharma]], and further elaborated upon by masters such as [[Nagarjuna]] and [[Chandrakirti]].

[[Sogyal Rinpoche]] says:

:"Unfortunately, the word ‘emptiness’, which is used to translate the Sanskrit term ''shunyata'', carries a connotation of a nothing-ness, or a void. Happily, there is a wonderful definition in Tibetan that captures its true meaning: Tib. རྟག་ཆད་དང་བྲལ་བ་, ''tak ché dang dralwa'', which translates as: ‘free from permanence and non-existence'.

:Generally, all philosophies tend to fall into one of [[two extremes]]: ‘[[eternalism]]‘: believing in the existence or permanence of something, or ‘[[nihilism]]‘: believing in non-existence. Shunyata goes beyond both of these extremes, because it is neither permanent nor non-existing, and that is, ultimately, how things are."

==The Analogy with Space==
Shunyata is often compared to space, which is defined in [[Buddhism]] as the complete openness, or 'unobstructedness', which allows anything to occur. Likewise, because reality is 'empty' and not fixed in any way, it is said that anything is possible. As Nagarjuna said:

:To whomever emptiness is possible, 
:All things are possible.

==Subdivisions==
*[[Sixteen kinds of emptiness]]
*[[Twenty kinds of emptiness]]

==The Emptiness of Emptiness==
Nagarjuna does not put forward emptiness as another view ''about'' reality. In fact, he says:

:The victorious ones say that emptiness
:Undermines all dogmatic views,
:Those who take a dogmatic view of emptiness
:Are said to be incurable.

And:

:I prostrate to [[Gautama]],
:Who, out of compassion,
:Taught the sacred [[Dharma]]
:That leads to the relinquishing of all views

==Alternative Translations==
*great emptiness
*voidness—an absence of an impossible way of existing (Alexander Berzin).

==Oral Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sanhga==
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Winterberg, Germany, 30 October 2014

===Edited Teachings of [[Sogyal Rinpoche]]===
*Rigpalink January 2010, 'The View of Shunyata - part 2', [[Lerab Ling]], 26 September 2008; Barcelona 10 & 11 October 2009 (available in English, French, German and Spanish, ordernumber 731)
*Rigpalink December 2009, 'The View of Shunyata - part 1', [[Lerab Ling]], 13 August 2009; Barcelona, 10 October 2009 (available in English, French, German and Spanish, ordernumber 730)
*Rigpalink June 2000, 'Shunyata – The Nature of Reality', Paris, 19 April 2000 (available in English, French, German, ordernumber 321)

==Further Reading==
*''A Treasury of Dharma'', aka ''The Mengak Study Pack'' (Lodève: The Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2005), pages 68-74.
*[[Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche]], ''Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness'' (Auckland: Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Publications, 2001).
*[[Thinley Norbu]], ''The Small Golden Key'' (Shambhala Publications, 1999), ‘7. Great Emptiness'.


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