The famous Buddhist saying "color is emptiness, and emptiness is color" contains profound philosophical thoughts. Most people, including scholars, like to make fun of it, thinking that color refers to women and emptiness is nothingness or nothingness. He said that monks saw through the world of mortals and regarded women as nothingness or nothingness, so they became monks. In fact, color is not feminine, and emptiness is not nothingness. To understand the true meaning of this sentence, we have to start with the basic teachings of Buddhism.
The teachings of Buddhism are mainly the so-called "four truths", namely, suffering, determination, extinction and Taoism. The essence of life and the reasons for its formation are expounded by two truths: bitterness and concentration; The two truths, destruction and Tao, point out the destination and road of life liberation.
Specifically: 1. The bitter truth is that life looks bitter in the world, and there are many kinds of pains and countless troubles in life, such as "birth, aging, illness and death". 2. Gathering truth is an analysis of the causes of pain and trouble, and holds that all things and phenomena in the universe cannot exist independently, but are composed of many factors. In this case, all entities have no separate "self-nature", but not only "self-nature", but also "* * *". Buddhists call it "all laws have no self" and think that everything is impermanent and is the main content of emptiness. 3. Extinction is the highest realm of Buddhism, namely Nirvana, which can extinguish the sufferings and troubles of life and transcend the cycle of life and death. 4. Tao is the road to nirvana. The method can be summarized as "abstinence, determination and wisdom".
For example, if an article is to be presented to readers, it first needs people's thoughts, paper and pen, and media tools. Can not be established independently. To put it bluntly, the appearance of the article is "color", and the reason for this "color" is "emptiness", such as people's thoughts and paper. If people don't want to write articles, or don't have pens and paper, they won't produce articles. Color is emptiness, which makes the human body realize the phenomenon of things, thus realizing that many sufferings and troubles are caused by vanity in people's hearts. Empty is color, so people can understand the cycle of karma and good and evil through the * * * nature and karma of things. The so-called: knowing the cause of the past life, the recipient of this life is, knowing the fruit of the next life, and the doer of this life is. It is the best explanation of the relationship between emptiness and many factors. Only by recognizing the karma and the cycle of good and evil of "color is empty, and empty is color" can people do good and measure people with their own personal virtue, truly care about everything in the world and take goodness as the foundation.
Color, a common word in Buddhism, refers to all tangible substances, which are born together by karma and empty in body, so color is empty.