What does Buddhism mean by emptiness?

When Buddhism says empty, it refers to ourselves.

Empty is ourselves, invisible, but this empty is not nothing, not nonexistent, although invisible, but can realize all kinds of things. What is tangible is you, that is, the realization of emptiness, and what is tangible without intangible is quite empty. Therefore, the Heart Sutra says that emptiness is the same color, emptiness is color, emptiness is the same as thinking and knowing.

Emptiness is the simplest description of the essence of all things in the world by Buddhism, and it is the conclusion that Buddha Sakyamuni penetrated the origin of all things in the world. Therefore, at the beginning of the Heart Sutra, it says: "After a long time of observing the Bodhisattva, I have gone deep into Prajna Paramita, seeing that the five aggregates are all empty, and I have experienced all hardships. Buddhist relics, color is not different from the sky, and the sky is not different from color. Color is empty, and empty is color. It is the same to know. "

The word "empty" in Buddhism is not what some people think of as "nothing" at all, and it is also different from the word "empty" that is often heard in society. The word "empty" means you can't get it.

The "emptiness" in Buddhism is a description of the changing process of things in the world. Accurately speaking, everything will eventually change and be destroyed, which is the most essential material evidence of the law of origin. Buddhism believes that everything in the world is formed by karma and combination, by the combination of various conditions, or by the change of other things, and finally changed into other things.

Demonstration mode:

1, from the way of argument, space can be divided into "analysis space" and "body space". The analysis of emptiness means that the unity can be decomposed into several parts or factors, and the unreal and uncomfortable things can be explained by the birth and death of things, which is mainly the method adopted by Hinayana.

2. Mahayana divides emptiness into "only emptiness" and "not only emptiness" in terms of ultimate truth or not. If we regard emptiness as absolute nothingness, we can't realize that it is actually a form of existence, that is, a kind of beauty, that is, but emptiness, also called "evil taking emptiness"

3. On the other hand, if we can realize that things have not only an empty side, but also an empty side, and realize that there is no empty, empty, empty in the air, and empty in memory, it is not only empty, but also called the middle way.

4. Based on the above basic explanations of emptiness, various schools of Buddhism have also deduced three empty spaces, four empty spaces, six empty spaces, seven empty spaces, ten empty spaces, eleven empty spaces, twelve empty spaces, fourteen empty spaces, sixteen empty spaces, eighteen empty spaces, nineteen empty spaces and twenty empty spaces. Among them, the eighteen empty spaces mentioned in "Da Pin Prajna" and "On Great Wisdom" have great influence.