禅宗时空观的哲学意涵及其现代意义

The Philosophical Connotation of the Zen Conceptof Time and Space and Its Modern Significance

禅宗认为,自然本体的时间空间具有无限多维性。以禅理来推论,三维时空、四维时空、五维时空以至于N维时空,都是人类以自己发明的时空坐标测量工具观测自然时所呈现出来的现象。无论多少维度的时空观,在禅宗看来都属于人类发明的方便法门权宜之计。唯有在各种时空维度之间自如转换、无限变化,方便法门权宜之计才会升级为无穷妙用之微妙法门。当此时刻,人便由相对有限现实性存在升级到无限能动而无限可能性存在的境界。从现代哲学意义上说,禅宗的时空观敞开了人类时空理论发展的无限前景。

According to Zen Buddhism,the time-space of nature is infinite and multi-dimensional.By Zen reasoning,three-dimensional time-space,four-dimensional time-space,five-dimensional time-space,and even N-dimensional time-space are all phenomena presented by human beings when they observe nature with their own invented measuring tools of time-space coordinates.No matter how many dimensions the view of time-space is,in the view of Zen Buddhism,it all belongs to the expediency invented by human beings.It is only when one is free to shift between the various dimensions of time and space with infinite variations that the expediency can be upgraded to a subtle method of infinite utility.At this moment,one's existence is upgraded from a relatively limited reality to a realm of infinite mobility and unlimited possibilities.In the modern philosophical sense,Zen's view of space-time opens up infinite prospects for the development of human time-space theory.