注大乘入楞伽經 7.187

7.187

此出外道不生滅義，九物體也：一時；二方；三虛空；四微塵；五四大種；六大梵天；七勝妙天；八大自在天；九眾生主，即神我也。謂諸外道計此九物不生不滅，能與生死諸法作因，通名作者，與佛大乘說一切法本非生滅，若有若無悉不可得亦無異。

This sets forth the non-Buddhists' meaning of non-arising and non-cessation, the nine entities: first, time; second, direction; third, space; fourth, subtle atoms; fifth, the four great elements; sixth, Mahābrahmā; seventh, Parameṣṭhin; eighth, Maheśvara; ninth, Prajāpati, which is the puruṣa. That is to say, various non-Buddhists imagine that these nine entities are non-arising and non-ceasing and can serve as causes for the various phenomena of saṃsāra, being collectively named "creators." This is no different from the Buddha's Mahāyāna teaching that all phenomena are fundamentally neither arising nor ceasing, and that both existence and non-existence are completely unapprehendable.