I've found this from The Gateless Gate, Kōun Yamada. The passage is meant to demonstrate the differences between Mahayana and Hinayana, as well as the relation of substance to the essential nature of reality. First, the Hinayana version:
"Since the whole cottage has been built by assembling brushwood,
If we took it to pieces,
Nothing would remain by the field, as before."
Next, the Mahayana's point of view:
"Since the cottage has been built by assembling brushwood,
There is nothing but the field,
Even without taking it to pieces."
The explanation from the Gateless Gate being:
"in contemplating the empty-infinite, Buddhism has two approaches, one called Hinayana and the other Mahayana. The Hinayana way is to understand that everything is empty by means of analysis. The Mahayana way is to realize everything is substantially void by means of experience."
Submitted July 08, 2017 at 12:23AM by pale_blue_is http://ift.tt/2sytjNn
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