新華嚴經論 26.7

26.7

In the sixth section there are three and a half lines of the sūtra, which explain that the uninterrupted nature of the three matters—fundamental ignorance, craving, and grasping—is the path of affliction. The uninterrupted nature of the two matters of karmic formations and becoming is the path of karma. The remaining portions—namely name-and-form, contact, sensation, birth, and aging-and-death, sorrow, and grief—are the path of suffering. Across the three periods of the prior limit, the posterior limit, and the present, if the afflictions of the preceding three sections are severed, then the three times and the three sections of afflictions are non-existent, leaving behind self and what belongs to self, leaving only arising and ceasing. 'Like a bundle of reeds' explains that although there is discriminating, apparent arising and ceasing, one understands that they are hollow within. Just like a bundle of reeds whose forms exist, yet each one is hollow inside: this explains that although the six sense organs and sense-objects exist, the Dharma eye is always empty; this explains contemplative penetration.