金剛經纂要刊定記 2.225

2.225

無生滅者。謂智照真如，如理見故。然有二意：一則心中無生滅之法。如《起信》云：「如實空者，從本已來一切染法不相應故。以念生則染，今既無念，故不相應。二則無者不也，只明此心本不生滅。」即同《起信》云：「以遠離微細念故得見心性，心即常住，常住即無生滅也。」

"Without arising or ceasing": this means that cognition illuminates tathatā, seeing it in accordance with principle. However, there are two meanings: first, in the mind there are no phenomena of arising and ceasing. As the Awakening of Faith says: "True emptiness means that from the beginning it has not been associated with any defiled phenomena." Because when thoughts arise there is defilement, now that there are no thoughts, they are not associated. Second, "without" means "not"; it simply clarifies that this mind fundamentally neither arises nor ceases. This is identical to the Awakening of Faith saying: "Because one is far removed from subtle thoughts, one is able to see the nature of the mind; the mind is eternal, and being eternal means having neither arising nor ceasing."