楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.76

4.76

諸俗數，即生死俗假因緣，謂凡夫從本以來，惟逐妄緣，流轉生死，如鉤鎖連環之不可斷。若能了達妄緣生即無生，故云「生義不可得」也。言生無性不起等，謂了生無生，性執不起，則離外道邪見。但我說因緣鉤鎖之義，令了生即無生，凡愚所不能了。若離能生因緣之外別有所生法者，則我說無因之論，而反自破鉤鎖之義。如燈顯眾像等者，佛謂我說鉤鎖之義正欲令人了達生則無生，否則離此生法之外別求無生，如眾物由燈而顯，非即物是明，故云「鉤鎖現若然」。謂鉤鎖之現若是，則因緣之外別有諸法也。

"Conventional reckonings" refers to the conventional, provisional causes and conditions of birth and death. It means that ordinary people from the beginning have only pursued delusive conditions and transmigrated through birth and death, like links of a chain that cannot be severed. If one can comprehend that origination from delusive conditions is non-origination, therefore it is said: "The meaning of origination cannot be found." Stating that origination has no nature and does not arise, and so on, means that by comprehending that origination is non-origination, adherence to a nature does not arise, and one is freed from the deviant views of the tīrthikas. Yet I merely teach the meaning of the chain of causes and conditions so as to cause [them] to comprehend that origination is non-origination, which the foolish cannot understand. If, apart from the causes and conditions capable of producing, there were separately an arisen dharma, then I would be teaching a doctrine of no-cause, which would conversely destroy the meaning of the chain. Regarding "Like a lamp revealing manifold forms" and so on, the Buddha means: I teach the meaning of the chain precisely wishing to cause people to comprehend that origination is non-origination; otherwise, seeking non-origination apart from these arisen dharmas would be like manifold objects being revealed by a lamp, where the objects are not themselves the illumination. Thus it is said: "If the appearance of the chain were thus." This means that if the appearance of the chain were like this, then apart from causes and conditions there would separately be other dharmas.