妙法蓮華經玄義 3.90

3.90

中智者，觀受由觸，乃至行由無明。無明秖是一念癡心，心無形質，但有名字。內、外、中間求字不得。是字不住，亦不不住。猶如幻化，虛誑眼目。無明體相本自不有，妄想因緣和合而生。無所有故，假名無明。不善思惟，心行所造，以不達無明如幻化故，起善、不善思惟，則有善、不善行，受善、不善名色、觸、受。今達無明如幻故，則諸行亦如化。從幻生識、名色等，皆如幻。愛、取、有、生，三世輪轉，幻化遷改，都無真實。有智之人，不應於中而生愛恚。無明既不可得，則無明不生，不生則不滅。諸行、老死亦不生不滅。不生故，則非新；不滅故，則非故。非故者，無故可畢；非新者，無新可造。無新者，子縛斷；無故者，果縛斷。是名中智觀十二因緣，得緣覺菩提。

Regarding intermediate wisdom: one contemplates that feeling arises from contact, and so on up to formations arising from ignorance. Ignorance is merely a single thought of a deluded mind; the mind has no physical form, but only a name. Seeking the name internally, externally, or in between, it cannot be found. This name does not abide, nor does it not abide. It is like an illusion or transformation, falsely deceiving the eyes. The substance and characteristics of ignorance originally do not exist; it is born through the combination of causes and conditions from false thinking. Because it is nonexistent, it is provisionally named 'ignorance.' Produced by improper thinking and mental formations, because one does not comprehend that ignorance is like an illusion or transformation, one gives rise to wholesome and unwholesome thinking, which results in wholesome and unwholesome formations, and one receives wholesome and unwholesome name-and-form, contact, and feeling. Now, comprehending that ignorance is like an illusion, the formations are also like a transformation. Consciousness, name-and-form, and so on born from illusion are all like an illusion. Craving, grasping, becoming, and birth revolve in the three times, shifting and transforming as illusions, entirely without reality. A person of wisdom should not give rise to attachment or aversion within them. Since ignorance is unattainable, ignorance is not born; not being born, it is not extinguished. Formations up to old age and death are also unborn and unextinguished. Being unborn, they are not new; being unextinguished, they are not old. Not being old, there is no old to be finished; not being new, there is no new to be created. Having no new, the bondage of the seed is severed; having no old, the bondage of the fruit is severed. This is called contemplating the twelvefold conditioned co-arising with intermediate wisdom, attaining pratyekabuddha bodhi.