大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 75.19

75.19

In the commentary, "The negated phenomena can also correspond sequentially to the preceding sentient and insentient spheres": such as "neither male nor female" corresponds to the earlier fully comprehending sentient beings; "neither earth, water, fire, nor wind" corresponds to the earlier fully comprehending realms, etc. In the commentary, "because the elephant, etc., are not the sorcery," etc., is the gate of cause and effect being mutually distinct, because the effect of the other-dependent is not the condition of conceptualization. "The lower phrase is the reverse of this": sorcery is not the elephant, etc., clarifying that the conceptualized is not the other-dependent; the following clarification that characteristics exist is cause and effect mutually establishing each other.