[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) › [華嚴經探玄記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733) › 13.42 # 華嚴經探玄記 13.42 華嚴經探玄記 13.42 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [13.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.13.42) 三約大悲分別者，菩薩見諸外道行異道求解脫中計無因等，起大悲心，觀此緣生，救彼邪執。論言先中際因者，過去二支是先際，與現在識等中際為因故。言及中後際因者，中際愛取有與未來後際為因。言中際前後二際故者，於中際內識等五果分屬前際，愛等三因分屬後際。既有此因，云何言無，是故結云若無如是因事，則種種眾生果事亦無也。 > Third, concerning the discrimination in terms of great compassion: Bodhisattvas see non-Buddhists practicing divergent paths seeking liberation while positing non-causality and so forth; they give rise to great compassion, contemplate this conditioned arising, and rescue them from those heterodox attachments. When the treatise speaks of 'causes of the preceding and intermediate periods,' the past two factors are the preceding period, functioning as causes for consciousness and so forth in the present intermediate period. When it speaks of 'and causes of the intermediate and subsequent periods,' craving, grasping, and existence of the intermediate period function as causes for the future subsequent period. When it speaks of 'because the intermediate period has preceding and subsequent periods,' within the intermediate period, the five results of consciousness and so forth belong to the preceding period, and the three causes of craving and so on belong to the subsequent period. Since these causes exist, how can one say there are none? Therefore, it concludes: if there were no such causal factors, then the various resultant factors of sentient beings would also not exist. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 13.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.13.41) - [Next: 13.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.13.43) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.13) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733~en-mt.13.42) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.13.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.13.42) · Pramāṇa