[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) › [勝鬘寶窟](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744) › 3.16 # 勝鬘寶窟 3.16 勝鬘寶窟 3.16 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744.3.16) 第八大意門。《華嚴經》云「法界非有量，亦復非無量。牟尼悉超越，有量及無量。」此意明約虛妄重輕，故分量與無量。虛妄重者名為有量苦集，離重虛妄名有量滅道；虛妄輕者名無量苦集，離輕虛妄名無量滅道。然虛妄本自不生，今則無滅。不生故未曾苦集，不滅故何有滅道？故非苦非集、非滅非道，豈是量無量耶？須深得此意。若定作量無量解，則成有所得，不識經之旨趣也。 > Eighth is the section on the overarching meaning. The \*Avataṃsaka-sūtra\* states: "The dharmadhātu is not finite, nor is it infinite. The Muni entirely transcends both the finite and the infinite." This meaning clarifies that based on the heaviness or lightness of illusion, the finite and infinite are distinguished. Heavy illusion is called finite suffering and origination, and parting from heavy illusion is called finite cessation and path; light illusion is called infinite suffering and origination, and parting from light illusion is called infinite cessation and path. However, illusion fundamentally never arises, and now it has no cessation. Because it does not arise, there was never suffering and origination; because it does not cease, how could there be cessation and the path? Therefore, it is neither suffering nor origination, neither cessation nor the path—how could it be finite or infinite? One must deeply grasp this meaning. If one definitively conceives an understanding of finite and infinite, this becomes having an acquisition (upalambha), and one fails to recognise the sūtra's underlying intent. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744.3.15) - [Next: 3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744.3.17) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744~en-mt.3.16) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法華義疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721.3.134) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1744.3.16) · Pramāṇa