[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) › [楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789) › 4.7 # 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.7 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.7) 答中先酬所問。非事非因，即非因非果也，合云非作非不作。言俱有過者，不特言事因而已，正言如來若惟是事因，則墮有作之過；若非事因，則墮無所有過也。言如來是事等者，謂若如來定須用因果等事，則是無常，若是無常，則一切所作之法應是如來，然我及諸佛皆不欲同彼事也。若非所作等，即覈上非事因句，謂非所作則無所得，無所得則智慧方便皆為徒設，同於兔角、石女兒也。又言無事無因者，謂法身既非有作，則離有無之過，離有無過則出於四句之外。四句者，即一異、俱不俱、有無非有非無、常無常等四句也，不墮此四句是為如來句義，為智者之所取也。 > In the answer, the Buddha first addresses what was asked. "Neither effect nor cause" means neither cause nor fruit; taken together it means neither made nor unmade. Saying that "both entail faults" does not merely refer to effect and cause; it precisely means that if the Tathāgata were solely effect and cause, he would fall into the fault of being created; if he were not effect and cause, he would fall into the fault of nonexistence. The passage stating that "If the Tathāgata were an effect..." means that if the Tathāgata were necessarily bound to things like cause and fruit, he would be impermanent; and if he were impermanent, all created dharmas would be the Tathāgata, yet neither I nor the Buddhas wish to be equated with such things. "If he were not something created..." examines the preceding line of "neither effect nor cause," meaning that if he were uncreated then nothing would be attained, and if nothing were attained, wisdom and skillful means would be set up in vain, identical to a rabbit's horn or a barren woman's son. Furthermore, regarding "neither effect nor cause," since the dharmakāya is not created, it is free from the faults of existence and nonexistence; being free from the faults of existence and nonexistence, it transcends the catuṣkoṭi. The catuṣkoṭi refers to the four propositions: identity and difference, both and neither, existence and nonexistence/neither existence nor nonexistence, permanence and impermanence. Not falling into this catuṣkoṭi is the meaning of the phrases concerning the Tathāgata, and is what is grasped by the wise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.6) - [Next: 4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.8) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789~en-mt.4.7) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lankavatara*bo.6.6) — Classical Tibetan - [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མདོ་ལས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གསུང་གི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ལེའུ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lankavatara*bo-d108.7.2) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.7) · Pramāṇa