[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) › [大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736) › 9.24 # 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 9.24 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 9.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.9.24) 疏「四相同時體性即滅」者，第七四相一時前後別中一時義也。以性滅為滅，故得同時。故《楞伽》云「初生則有滅，不為愚者說。一切法不生，我說剎那義。」《淨名》云「汝今即時亦生亦老亦滅故。」又云「過去已滅、未來未至、現在無住，三世皆空。」故體性即滅，乃會相歸性也。故《起信論》云「若得無念者，則知心相生住異滅。以無念等故，而實無有始覺之異。以四相同時而有，皆無自立，本來平等，同一覺故。」前教假立四相，故不同時；此教以所相法體隨法性而融通，故能相之相亦生滅而無礙。 > The Commentary states: "The four characteristics are simultaneous, and their essential nature is precisely extinguished"; this is the seventh \[section\], concerning the meaning of simultaneity within the distinction between the four characteristics being simultaneous versus successive. Because taking essential extinction as extinction is adopted, they can be simultaneous. Therefore the \*Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra\* states: 'At initial arising there is extinction; I do not teach this to fools. All dharmas do not arise; I speak of the meaning of the kṣaṇa.' The \*Vimalakīrtinirdeśa\* states: 'For you at this very moment also arise, also age, and also become extinguished.' It also states: 'The past is already extinguished, the future has not yet arrived, and the present has no abiding; the three times are all empty.' Therefore, the essential nature being precisely extinguished is returning characteristics to nature. Hence the \*Awakening of Faith\* states: 'If one attains non-thought, one knows the mind's characteristics of arising, abiding, change, and extinction. Because of non-thought and the like, in truth there is no difference of initial awakening. Because the four characteristics exist simultaneously, all lacking self-standing, they are fundamentally equal and share the same single awakening.' The former teaching provisionally establishes four characteristics, so they are not simultaneous; this teaching takes the entity of the characterized dharmas to be harmonized in accordance with dharmatā, and therefore the characterizing characteristics also arise and cease without obstruction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.9.23) - [Next: 9.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.9.25) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736~en-mt.9.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.9.24) · Pramāṇa