Summary
s.1This sūtra contains a Dharma discourse on the profound insight into the emptiness of all phenomena, also known as transcendent insight. Following a short teaching in verse by Śāriputra, the Buddha delivers the primary discourse at the behest of Ānanda and Mañjuśrī amid a vast assembly of monks, bodhisattvas, and lay devotees. He specifically addresses hearers and so-called “outcast bodhisattvas” who have not realized transcendent insight and who thus remain attached to phenomenal appearances. Responding to a series of questions posed by Mañjuśrī and Śāriputra, the Buddha explains that all phenomena are as empty as space, with nothing to be either affirmed or rejected. Yet that very emptiness is what makes everything possible, including the bodhisattvas’ altruistic activities.
s.1本經包含一部關於所有現象之空性的深刻智慧的法門，也稱為般若。在舍利弗作了簡短的偈頌教導之後，佛陀應阿難和文殊師利的請求，在由眾多比丘、菩薩和在家信眾組成的廣大集會中傳授主要的法門。他特別針對聲聞弟子和所謂的棄捨菩薩進行開示，這些眾生尚未證悟般若，因此仍然執著於現象的外相。針對文殊師利和舍利弗所提出的一系列問題，佛陀解釋說所有現象都如虛空般空無，既無可肯定之處也無可否定之處。然而，正是這空性本身使一切得以可能，包括菩薩們的無私利他活動。