[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) › [大般涅槃經義記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764) › 4.37 # 大般涅槃經義記 4.37 大般涅槃經義記 4.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.37) 第三段中，難破自生，明其非有；難破從他，成初乳生，顯其非無。破從他中，「若從他生」舉其異說，此名水等以之為他，對破可知。次破從自，「若自生者」舉他異說，宣說乳中先有酪性還生後酪名為自生，故今舉之。下對破遣，「不應相似相續生」者，以酪自生，破從乳生。酪從酪生，不從乳故，是乳不應相似相續而生後酪。乳相似酪故言相似，酪生接乳名為相續。道其相似，明乳酪因；云言相續，明酪乳果。「若相續生則不俱」者，以從乳生，破酪自生。以從前乳續生酪故，明知先無酪之自性，與乳俱時而生後酪。「若不俱生五種之味不一時」者，將初類後，若無酪性與乳俱時而生後酪，是則乳中亦無生蘇乃至醍醐，是故五味不得一時。「雖不一」下釋成初句明從乳生，「雖不得一時」簡前自生，「定復不從餘處來也」簡前他生，謂不從餘水草中來。「當知乳中先有酪相」正明乳生。乳有酪性，酪性是其酪果家相，如煖火相，非有酪體。「甘味多故，不能自變」明假緣生，此言即是釋防外難。難意如何？若乳有酪，何故假緣？假緣生故，明知乳中先無酪性，無酪性故不從乳生。故今釋之。乳中實有甘味多故，不能自變，故假酢緣方始得生。 > In the third section, raising objections to refute self-origination clarifies non-existence; raising objections to refute origination from another establishes the initial origination from milk, revealing non-nonexistence. In refuting origination from another, "If it arises from another" raises the differing theory; this terms water and so forth as "another," and the refutation against it can be known. Next, refuting origination from self: "If it arises from itself" raises another differing theory, which proclaims that there is already the nature of curd in the milk beforehand that generates the subsequent curd, termed self-origination; hence it is cited now. Below, in refuting and dispelling it: "It should not arise in resemblance and continuity": using curd arising from itself, it refutes origination from milk. If curd arises from curd and not from milk, this milk should not generate subsequent curd in resemblance and continuity. Milk resembles curd, hence "resemblance"; curd arising succeeding milk is called "continuity." Speaking of their resemblance clarifies milk as the cause of curd; speaking of continuity clarifies curd as the fruit of milk. "If it arises in continuity, then they are not simultaneous": using origination from milk, it refutes the self-origination of curd. Because it arises as curd in continuity from the preceding milk, one clearly knows that the self-nature of curd did not exist beforehand, arising simultaneously with the milk to produce the subsequent curd. "If they do not arise simultaneously, the five flavors are not at the same time": analogizing the subsequent by the initial, if there is no nature of curd arising simultaneously with the milk to produce the subsequent curd, then there is also no fresh butter up to clarified butter in the milk; therefore the five flavors cannot occur at the same time. Below "Although they are not at the same \[time\]", it explains and establishes the first proposition, clarifying origination from milk: "although they cannot be at the same time" sets aside the preceding self-origination; "it certainly does not come from elsewhere either" sets aside the preceding origination from another, meaning that it does not come from the other water and grass. "One should know that within milk there are beforehand the marks of curd" directly clarifies origination from milk. Milk possesses the nature of curd, and the nature of curd is a mark belonging to the fruit of curd, just as heat is the mark of fire; it is not that the entity of curd exists \[in milk\]. "Because sweet flavor is abundant, it cannot transform on its own" clarifies that it arises dependent on conditions; these words serve to ward off an external objection. What is the thrust of the objection? If milk possesses curd, why depend on conditions? Because it arises dependent on conditions, one clearly knows that there is no nature of curd beforehand in milk; since there is no nature of curd, it does not originate from milk. Hence it is explained now: because the sweet flavor in milk is genuinely abundant, it cannot transform on its own, so it relies on the condition of sourness before it can finally be produced. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.36) - [Next: 4.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.38) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764~en-mt.4.37) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.37) · Pramāṇa