『華嚴經』의 禪觀 小考

Abstract

『the Avatamska Sutra』, the Mahyna early buddhism, is a scripture showing clearly the reality of theory and practice with its close structure of Faith, Interpretation, Performance, and Evidence. In other words, the philosophies of Sunggi, Eusim, and Beopgyeyeongi in 『the Avatamska Sutra』 teach the possibility of people to achieve enlightenment and the practice system for it. Sunggi means that a body, which is the nature of enlightenment, is inherent in people's mind. This means that people are a buddha as they are, not that people become a buddha through practice. People are the same as buddha essentially and, therefore, each person has the possibility to attain buddhahood. Next philosophy is Eusim. Everything in the world appears and disappears following its heart. And this hear is not cast in stone. It is a pure nature but has the character of Paticcasamuppāda. That means it was an ‘emptiness’ originally, but it comes to exist by depending on other thing each other and keeps going continuously. ‘Beopgyeyeongi’ is the worldview of 『the Avatamska Sutra』and the foundation of theorizing the world of enlightenment. All things in the universe cannot exist alone, but they become a cause and a connection for each other. And this causality is the Paticcasamuppāda. overlapped one upon another. This Beopgyeyeongi unfolds with the thought of four kinds of world. The abhisambodhi Like this, the worldview of Avatamska spreads as a grandeur with limitless time and space and this grandeur means the very world of enlightenment. The philosophy of Zen(Sunggi, Eusim, and Beopgyeyeongi) in 『the Avatamska Sutra』based on the worldview of abhisambodhi(enlightenment) has affected Zen monks and became the foundation of Zen thoughts.