大般涅槃經集解 45.39

45.39

Sengliang notes: This is the sixth objection. Baoliang says: Its meaning does not differ from that of the fifth objection. If the myriad phenomena possessed a single fixed nature, there would be no three times; because they are not fixed, they pass through the three times. That a sound that has already passed cannot be heard means that what has not yet arrived is also unheard, and what is in the present arises and ceases in an instant and likewise cannot be heard. Thus the treatise states, 'phenomena apprehend sense-objects nowhere,' which is used as an analogy for nirvāṇa.