[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) › [金剛般若論會釋](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816) › 2.17 # 金剛般若論會釋 2.17 金剛般若論會釋 2.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.2.17) 解極微中，初、標，後、釋。諸有愚夫皆執色身影像相是實，有一合相，二執便生。今破此故，顯二方便，方者因也，一合麁身以細為因，故不念因是實有，名不念方便。又方便是慧妙用，觀麁合身，以極微為因，麁既是非實及合，不念極微實有，俱慧用故，即《唯識》云，為執麁色是實有者，佛說極微令其除折，正是此義。故細作方便即是極微，合麁世界極微為因故。又以慧折麁界為微，慧功用者，即《唯識》云，諸瑜伽師假想慧漸次除折，至不可折，假說極微。不念方便者，不執因微為實為有。念者，觀察、執著之義。此之極微佛雖假喻，恐有執者謂說實有，說非微塵，名為不念。又教菩薩寄喻觀察不生執著，是慧巧能，故《唯識》云，非謂諸色實有，極微破其執也。 > In explaining subtle atoms, first is the presentation, then the explanation. Foolish ordinary beings all cling to the image-appearance of the material body as real, having the characteristic of a single combination; thus the two clingings arise. Now, in order to refute this, two skillful means are revealed. 'Fang' means cause: the coarse body of a single combination has the subtle as its cause, so not recollecting the cause as real existence is called the 'skillful means of non-recollection'. Furthermore, skillful means is the marvelous functioning of wisdom: contemplating the coarse combined body as having subtle atoms as its cause, since the coarse is unreal and a combination, one does not recollect subtle atoms as really existent; both are the function of wisdom. This is just what the Consciousness-Only \[treatise\] says: 'For the sake of those who cling to coarse form as real existence, the Buddha spoke of subtle atoms to make them dissect it'; this is precisely this meaning. Therefore, making it subtle as a skillful means refers to subtle atoms, because the combined coarse world has subtle atoms as its cause. Furthermore, using wisdom to dissect the coarse world into atoms is the functional efficacy of wisdom. This is what the Consciousness-Only \[treatise\] says: 'The yogic practitioners, by means of the wisdom of conceptualization, gradually dissect it until it cannot be dissected, and conceptually designate it as a subtle atom.' The 'skillful means of non-recollection' means not clinging to the causal atoms as real or existent. 'Recollection' has the meaning of contemplation and clinging. Although the Buddha used these subtle atoms as a provisional metaphor, fearing that there would be clingers who would take them to be taught as real existents, he said they are 'not fine dust-atoms', which is termed 'non-recollection'. Moreover, teaching bodhisattvas to employ metaphors to contemplate without generating clinging is the skillful capacity of wisdom; hence the Consciousness-Only \[treatise\] says: 'It does not mean that forms are real existents; subtle atoms refute their clinging.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.2.16) - [Next: 2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.2.18) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816~en-mt.2.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.2.17) · Pramāṇa