彰所知論 2.42

2.42

Furthermore, as for unconditioned dharmas, there are three kinds: 1. space, 2. analytical cessation, and 3. non-analytical cessation. Regarding the unconditioned [dharma of] space, space merely exists having non-obstruction as its nature; because it is unobstructed and pervasive throughout all places, it is called the unconditioned space, and forms move within it. All other apertures of doors and windows, empty spaces of light and darkness, physical space-matter, and the like, are not unconditioned. 2. As for the unconditioned [dharma of] analytical cessation: it refers to the true reality revealed through the two paths of seeing and cultivation when undefiled wisdom severs the obscurations and defilements; this is called the unconditioned analytical cessation. 3. As for the unconditioned [dharma of] non-analytical cessation: it refers to what is able to permanently obstruct the arising of future dharmas; attaining a cessation different from the former is called non-analytical cessation. It is attained not due to analysis, but solely through the deficiency of conditions; hence it is called non-analytical cessation. These three unconditioned dharmas are accepted by the Sarvāstivādins as real entities, while the Sautrāntika masters state they are non-constructed. Question: Is suchness not an unconditioned dharma? Answer: That is simply selflessness; because the Śrāvakayāna does not speak of the selflessness of dharmas. The selflessness of persons is just the sixteen aspects such as impermanence. The aspects of the [first] three truths are conditioned, and the aspects of the truth of cessation are only the dharma of analytical cessation, and not any other dharma. Thus, the five knowables—the vessel, sentient beings, the path, the fruit, and the unconditioned—completely encompass all knowable dharmas. The dharmas of sentient beings and the vessel are the truth of suffering; the cause that brings them about is the truth of origin; the two dharmas of path and fruit are the truth of the path; and the unconditioned analytical cessation is the truth of cessation. The two unconditioned dharmas of space and non-analytical cessation, [as part of] the three unconditioned, are not subsumed under the four truths, because the two truths of suffering and origin are defiled dharmas, and the two truths of path and cessation are undefiled dharmas. Thus have the worldly and supramundane, conditioned and unconditioned knowable dharmas been explained.