注維摩詰經 10.136

10.136

什曰：此即四依中如實法也。上十二因緣明如說修行隨順因緣故得無生法忍，今明行四依依十二因緣如實相也。肇曰：無明，十二之根本。無明既滅，餘緣亦滅也。畢竟，謂始終常滅，不復更滅。始終常滅不復更滅，乃所以成無盡滅義也。生曰：畢竟滅者，終要然也。終既要滅，生豈有哉？生若不有，其誰有滅耶？則無入無歸也。

[Kumāra]jīva says: This is precisely the Dharma of true reality among the four reliances. Above, under the twelve links of dependent origination, it was clarified that cultivating practice as taught and according with dependent origination allows one to attain the endurance of the non-arising of dharmas; here, it clarifies practicing the four reliances by relying on the true mark of the twelve links of dependent origination. [Seng]zhao says: Ignorance is the root of the twelve links. Once ignorance is extinguished, the remaining conditions are also extinguished. 'Fundamentally and entirely' means being constantly extinguished from beginning to end, never being extinguished again. Being constantly extinguished from beginning to end without further extinction is precisely what accomplishes the meaning of inexhaustible extinction. [Dao]sheng says: 'Fundamentally and entirely extinguished' means that it must ultimately be so. Since in the end it must be extinguished, how could birth ever exist? If birth does not exist, what could ever be extinguished? Thus there is nowhere to enter and nowhere to return.