Nâgârjuna on Buddhism
"For all of
eternity, everything is unexpressible, ineffable, at rest and pure."
Nâgârjuna : Treatise on the Middle,
Seuil - Paris, 1995, p.244.
"If,
for all eternity, all is at rest, then effectively Buddha has said
nothing, or at least his speech is an empty speech, a speech without
speech, a silent saying, a discourse without contents. The language of
the Buddha is the language of Awakening, of which the unique grammar is
silence, of which the absence of formulation is its only expression. The
language of the Buddha is the language which by itself never said
something, which never made itself heard and which was never perceived.
Empty of significance, it was never preached, never preached, it was never
understood, never understood, it thus was never transmitted. The
un-saying of emptiness can not be the object of any positive
translation, to utter emptiness is to say nothing, which is why the
Buddha could not have expressed himself. The discourse of emptiness is
the emptiness of every discourse. The teaching of vacuity is the vacuity
of every teaching. Since always silence reigns and was never troubled.
For all of eternity, everything is at rest." |
© Wim van den Dungen
Antwerp, 2000 -
2008.