般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 1.36

1.36

What is called the object to be contemplated? It means that at first one contemplates that all forms, minds, mental factors, and so forth born from conditions are like the appearance of sky-flowers, deceiving and bewildering foolish persons, which is named the other-dependent (paratantra); foolish persons fail to understand and falsely grasp them as a self and as dharmas, which is compared to real sky-flowers, having neither nature nor characteristic whatsoever, and is named the parikalpita; upon the other-dependent, self and dharmas are fundamentally empty, and the true reality revealed through contemplating this emptiness, compared to open space, is named the fully perfected (pariniṣpanna). All knowable dharmas do not exceed existence and non-existence: non-existent dharmas are without substance, and can only be collectively called the parikalpita, because they are grasped by the mind of pervasive conceptualization; existent dharmas possess substance, and by reason should be distinguished: all saṃskṛta dharmas are named the other-dependent, because of the fact of arising from conditions; all asaṃskṛta dharmas are named the fully perfected, because they are the fundamental principle of dharmas. Or again, defiled dharmas are named the other-dependent, because their nature is inverted; all undefiled dharmas are named the fully perfected, because they are non-inverted.