說無垢稱經疏 3.333

3.333

Commentary: Below, he specifically negates them, five negations for the five points. This negates impermanence. The interpretation in accordance with the principle of emptiness says: conventional truth has characteristics: because there is a past, there are things already arisen and already ceased; because there is a present, there are things now arising and now ceasing; because there is a future time, there are things to arise and to cease. Through understanding that the ultimate truth of impermanence is signless, all is completely empty, and the three times are fundamentally nonexistent, how could there be arising and so forth? Thoroughly understanding this principle, one constantly sees oneself; therefore this is the genuine principle of the ultimate truth regarding worldly impermanence. The interpretation in accordance with the principle of reality says: in the ultimate, definitive principle of the Buddhas, within tathatā there are originally no three times; where could there be the past already arisen, the present now arising, the future to arise, or the past already ceased, the present now ceasing, the future to cease? Therefore, non-arising and non-ceasing are the ultimate principle of true impermanence, unlike the established principle of having arising and ceasing being the meaning of impermanence. Now, using the permanent principle of tathatā as the expressive to express the expressed meaning of impermanent arising and ceasing, he therefore says that non-arising and non-ceasing are the meaning of impermanence. The substance of tathatā is permanent, to ward off attachment to permanence. Because impermanence is revealed, it is called the meaning belonging to impermanence. The Nirvāṇa Sūtra says, 'There is suffering, there is the truth, and there is the real. Suffering refers to the fact of suffering; truth refers to the principle of suffering; the real refers to tathatā.' Śrāvakas have the truth of suffering but do not have the real, because they do not realize the unestablished nature of tathatā, and only realize established facts and principles. Through this, tathatā, as revealed based on expression, is the meaning of impermanence.