[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710) › 2.45 # 般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 2.45 般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 2.45 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.45) 或有難言，若法皆真無別相者，甘露聖教既有增減，真空應爾。今義答言，如太空中色相增減，空相不然，如是聖教雖有增減，而空性無，皆由事理、體相別故。若一切法唯真如空，如何得有生滅等事？以上總說非但色體不異即空，色上生等諸差別義亦不異即空，今遮通別，且略舉三，而實空相亦不一等。《大經》次言，如是自性無生無滅、無染無淨，菩薩如是修行般若波羅蜜多時，不見生滅、不見染淨。何以故？但假立客名，別別於法而起分別；隨起言說，如如言說如是如是生起執著；菩薩修行般若波羅蜜多時，於如是等一切不見，由不見故不生執著。 > Or someone may challenge: 'If phenomena are all suchness without distinct marks, then since the holy teaching of the nectar \[of Dharma\] has increase and decrease, true emptiness should also be like that.' The present teaching replies: 'Just as marks of form increase and decrease in space while the mark of space does not, so although the holy teaching increases and decreases, the nature of emptiness does not. This is because principle and phenomena, substance and marks, are distinct.' If all phenomena were only the emptiness of tathatā, how could there be occurrences such as production and destruction? The above general exposition states not only that the substance of form is not different from and is identical with emptiness, but that the various differentiated meanings such as production upon form are also not different from and are identical with emptiness. Now, to preclude the common and the distinct, three \[pairs\] are briefly raised; in reality, however, the mark of emptiness is also not one, and so on. The Great Sūtra further says: 'In this way, the intrinsic nature is unproduced and undestroyed, undefiled and unpurified. When a bodhisattva practices the prajñāpāramitā in this way, he does not see production or destruction, nor does he see defilement or purification. Why is that? Only adventitious names are provisionally established, generating discriminations regarding distinct phenomena; following what is generated, speech arises; according to speech, clinging arises in this and that way. When a bodhisattva practices the prajñāpāramitā, he does not see any of these; because he does not see them, clinging does not arise.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.44) - [Next: 2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.46) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710~en-mt.2.45) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.2.45) · Pramāṇa