[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) › [注維摩詰經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775) › 9.384 # 注維摩詰經 9.384 注維摩詰經 9.384 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.384](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.384) 什曰：凡夫死時起惡滅善，既生則眾惡增長。菩薩則不然。復次凡夫善本盡，故命終長顛倒惡心，然後受生。菩薩則不然，法化清淨，隨意所之，故無此一患。無此一患，則雖迹有去來，而非沒生之謂也。上先以性空明無沒生，今以法化自在明無沒生。求之二門則沒生無寄，而問沒生，失之遠矣。肇曰：善惡者皆是虛誑相續之相，敗壞法耳。然凡夫生則長惡、沒則盡善。菩薩生則長善、沒則盡惡。沒生雖同，長盡不一，然俱是虛誑敗壞之相，何異幻化耶？生曰：生死尚不實，不應致問，況都無之耶。生死沒者，福德盡故也，生者必長諸惡也。 > \[Kumāra\]jīva says: When ordinary people die, evil arises and goodness is extinguished; once born, their manifold evils increase. The bodhisattva is not like this. Furthermore, an ordinary person's roots of goodness are exhausted; hence at the end of life an inverted evil mind grows, and then they undergo rebirth. The bodhisattva is not like this; their transformation through Dharma is pure, going wherever they wish; hence they do not have this trouble. Without this trouble, although their traces have coming and going, it cannot be called passing away and being born. Above, he first clarified the absence of passing away and birth through emptiness of inherent nature; here, he clarifies the absence of passing away and birth through sovereignty in Dharma transformations. Seeking it through these two gates, passing away and birth have no basis; asking about passing away and birth misses the mark by far. \[Seng\]zhao says: Good and evil are both marks of the continuity of falsehood, mere decaying phenomena. Yet when ordinary people are born, evil grows; when they pass away, goodness is exhausted. When bodhisattvas are born, goodness grows; when they pass away, evil is exhausted. Although passing away and being born are the same, growing and exhausting are different; yet both are marks of false decay, so how do they differ from illusions? \[Dao\]sheng says: Saṃsāra is not even real and should not be asked about, let alone when it is entirely non-existent. Passing away in saṃsāra occurs because merit is exhausted; taking birth inevitably fosters evils. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.383](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.383) - [Next: 9.385](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.385) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775~en-mt.9.384) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.384](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.384) · Pramāṇa