大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 31.36

31.36

疏「二依所依者」，亦先喻、後合。然與水喻釋有影略，水喻以水為所依，今以焰無體用而為所依。若例前流依於水者，應以火為所依，火是熱性身所觸故，焰是色動有形顯故。若依此釋，應云前焰後焰皆依於火，以無性故無相知。是則依水依火，明二空所顯不空真理以為所依。若無體用為所依者，則顯依他無性，即是圓成。二空真理以為所依，顯義無方，故有影略。下唯所依，亦準斯釋。又若例後風喻，風依物動，則火依薪有，薪為可然、火是能然，故以然因可然，則然無體；可然因然，則可然無體，則以無性可然而為所依。

Regarding the Commentary's statement "Second, depending on what is relied upon": this also first gives the analogy and later combines it. However, between this and the explanation of the water analogy, there is complementary abbreviation: the water analogy takes water as what is relied upon, whereas here it takes the flame's absence of essence and function as what is relied upon. If it were patterned after the preceding flow relying on water, it should take fire as what is relied upon, because fire has the nature of heat and is touched by the body, whereas flame is form in motion and has manifest appearance. If explained according to this, it should say that both the preceding flame and the subsequent flame rely on fire, and because they lack intrinsic nature, they do not know one another. Thus, relying on water and relying on fire clarifies the non-empty true principle revealed by the two kinds of emptiness as what is relied upon. If absence of essence and function is taken as what is relied upon, it reveals that other-dependence (paratantra) lacking intrinsic nature is precisely perfected nature (pariniṣpanna). Taking the true principle of the two kinds of emptiness as what is relied upon reveals the meaning without a single fixed method; hence there is complementary abbreviation. The subsequent text on 'only what is relied upon' should also be interpreted in accordance with this. Furthermore, if patterned after the subsequent wind analogy, wind moves in dependence on objects, so fire exists in dependence on fuel; fuel is what can be burned (combustible), and fire is what can burn. Therefore, since burning is conditioned by the combustible, burning lacks essence; since the combustible is conditioned by burning, the combustible lacks essence; thus, the natureless combustible is taken as what is relied upon.