[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) › [維摩經略疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778) › 5.146 # 維摩經略疏 5.146 維摩經略疏 5.146 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.5.146) 「如佛至亦滅」，三、引佛語為證。正證現在無住，不得受未來一生之記。何者？彌勒未愜，若過未皆無，不得約過未身受菩提記者，今佛約現在身授未來記，何得言現在無住不得受未來記，所以引佛所說亦生亦老亦滅為證者，破彌勒計一期執現在停住，故約此身破受未來記。「亦生」等者，若依薩婆多三相同時，生即有滅。雖有一期，理而求之無暫停住，何得約現受未來記？ > From "Just as the Buddha, up to, also perishes," third, citing the Buddha's words as proof. This directly proves that the present has no abiding, and that one cannot receive a prophecy of a single future life. Why? Maitreya was not yet satisfied: if the past and future are both nonexistent, and one cannot receive the prophecy of bodhi on the basis of a past or future body, now the Buddha confers a future prophecy on the basis of the present body; how can one say that the present has no abiding and cannot receive a future prophecy? The reason for citing what the Buddha spoke—"is also born, also ages, and also perishes"—as proof, is to refute Maitreya's notion of a single lifespan, grasping at the present as enduring and abiding; thus on the basis of this body he refutes receiving a future prophecy. As for "also born" and so forth: if one relies on the Sarvāstivāda view of the three characteristics being simultaneous, then with arising there is immediately perishing. Although there is a single lifespan, searching it out in principle there is not even momentary abiding; how could one receive a future prophecy on the basis of the present? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.145](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.5.145) - [Next: 5.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.5.147) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778~en-mt.5.146) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.5.146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.5.146) · Pramāṇa