大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 69.22

69.22

Regarding the commentary's "Third, beginning, middle, and end" and below: the text of the commentary has two parts: first, directly explaining; later, eliminating confusion. Now for the first: this directly verifies the tathatā free from increase and decrease. If explained according to characteristics, at the past boundary defilement increases and purity decreases; at the future boundary purity increases and defilement decreases; and at the middle boundary it is half increasing and half decreasing. Now, treating it in terms of the emptiness of the nature of principle, both are negated.