Nagarjuna’s Thought Practical Philosophy in Mind

ナーガールジュナ　ノ　シソウ　ココロ　ノ　ジッセン　テツガク

サトウ, ノブロウ

Sato, Noburo

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

自然的存在領域

概念領域

如

智慧の眼

interdependence

the sphere of ideas

the sphere of natural existence

likelihood

the eyes of wisdom

Articles

This paper analyzes Nagarjuna’s thought. Buddhism frequently says that you must see things as they are with your eyes of wisdom, so that you will notice that things are likely phantoms. This point of view is engi, that is, interdependence. Nagarjuna explained this perspective in his books. The seminal work on the subject is Nakamura Hajime’s Nagarjuna. In it he explains that engi is central to Nagarjuna’s thought and has a significant relationship to the sphere of general ideas. He says that general ideas are so interdependent that they don’t exist independently. He excludes the sphere of natural existence from engi, so that he concentrates very important words of Buddhism on engi. His focused explanation of engi makes it easy to understand the mutual relationship of the important words of Buddhism. He thinks that the comprehension of engi leads to the liberation from restriction in the sphere of general ideas. But he says that we can get it by experience, which means the limitations of thinking. This paper indicates that the contents of engi include not only the sphere of ideas but also that of natural existence by using the sutras and the books of Nagarjuna, and that liberation will not occur owing to the connection of general ideas, because the connection does not necessarily mean liberation. In conclusion, the eyes of wisdom will make it possible to see anything have synchronous action with each other because of engi.