僧肇“空”论解义

Monk Zhao's “Kong”(emptiness) in Perspective

僧肇的《不真空论》论述的是“空”这一本体论问题。关于“空”的涵义 ,僧肇的原义是“不真 ,故空”。这个“空”并不是作为抽象概念的死的规定 ,而是存在着的事物的一种活的本质、本性 ,它是“有”和“无”的有机统一。这个“空”体现、展现在人生解脱问题上就是对“死”的意义和价值的理解和透悟 ;而要真正理解“死”,就要契悟于时间的“现在”这一瞬间点中 ,即在瞬间永恒化。总之 ,僧肇的“空”论在哲学本体论和人生论上都有重要的意义。

Zhao, one of samgha, was a learned Chinese Buddhist, thus is titled here upadhyaya and named Monk Zhao. Monk Zhao's theory of “Bu Zhen Kong Lun” is to deal with the problem concerning ontology. The meaning of “Kong” is “being without real property, thus there is an emptiness”. The writer in this paper is to translate Monk Zhao's Theory from four phases. By perspective of phenomenon and visual phenomenology the writer takes the “Kong” under discussed; he deems that it is not confined in the abstract connotation of “dead”, but an active substance of something living; it is embodying a philosophically organic unity of “something” and “nothing”. Again, in Buddhist doctrine Monk Zhao's Theory is helpful to acknowledge the learning of vimukta (free oneself); The expression of “Kong” is connotative of something with real property, opposing to the value, the understanding and the comprehension of “dead”; to understand “dead” really, to understand the present moment is the first and the last step. So man is forced to believe that the present moment will be forced into perpectuality. All and all, Monk Zhao's Theory bears the significance in philosophy for it will give help for those who want probing deep in ontology, and for those who like talking life and dead philosophically.