鳩摩羅什大師曾開示說,凡是要明了「空性」,就必需先明白「無常」,因為無常是觀照空性的初門。因為是初門,所以叫作無常,若已達到究竟,則稱之為空。雖然它們探索實相的宗旨是相同的,然而因觀照的境界有粗細,才分別為淺與深的差別。這怎麼說?所謂「無常」就是說世間一切有為法(指任何存在事物),念念中都不住。所謂「不住」只是針對「法能維繫安住」這樣的觀念,雖除去「法能久住」的顛倒執著,然而尚未明了「法是無住的」實相,是粗淺的無常義而已!尚未達到法最終極的實相義。於現在這一念間,若能令法維繫安住,則後面也應該安住。若現在安住、後來也安住,則始終無變。始終無變,根據我們對事物的實際經驗觀察,則不是這樣。因為法在住的時候,並不安住,所以我們才發現它之後的消逝。住即不住,才是真正的無常啊!眾生原本以為,住在當下的法有實質,現在領悟到它是無住的,就沒有實質的法,沒有實質的法就是畢竟空(也就是說一切因緣所生法如幻有,但本性空寂不生不滅)。畢竟空才是無常究竟微妙的宗旨,所以說畢竟空是無常的真實義。
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