前几天关于大乘佛教轮回即涅槃观点的阐述在书里遇到了,但还是不能完全说服我,记下来过几天再细究
Needless to say, most Buddhists generally did not take it in that literal way (though some came close). Instead, they viewed it as a truth to be realized and concluded that our fundamental problem is our failure to wake up to the truth of this equation, a failure that keeps us in samsāra. Still, the redefinition of samsāra as nirvāna was important. In a sense, the First Truth, stress (duhukha), was now no longer seen as a truth, but more like a mistake. The truth is we are already enlightened (“in nirvāna”), but, paradoxically, we are not, because we have not yet realized that fact. Once we do, we will view this world of samsāra as it has always been – stressless and the same as nirvāna.
This shift in perspective opened the door for various explanations of just how it is that we are already enlightened while still in samsāra. One of these was the theory of the tathāgatagarbha, the womb or seed of the Buddha (tathāgata), a doctrine which one scholar has described as “an attempt to clarify the ontological basis upon which ordinary worldlings can realize Buddhahood” (Stone, 1999, p. 5).
——BAI J S Strong 9.7