俱舍論疏 4.261

4.261

論「無無窮過至無無窮過」，此廣答也。雖雙問得與非得，然二不同。得有大得小得同時相得，非得不爾，以於現在無非得故，故知非得不如其得有小非得。就其別義，亦有大小非得不同。謂翻大得名大非得，即非得大得所得之法本法及大小相故。翻於小得名小非得，此唯非得大得及四相。故《婆沙》一百五十八云「如是說者，法與生等同一得得，相與所相極親近故。由此善通色蘊、行蘊一得得等。」已上論文。得與非得相翻而立，不可不同。雖無大小非得更互非得，以得非無窮故，非得亦非無窮。故答無窮唯釋於得，即顯非得無無窮也，翻得立故。

[On the] Śāstra['s statement]: "There is no fault of infinite regress … there is no fault of infinite regress": This is the detailed answer. Although possession and non-possession are asked together, the two are not the same. Possession has great possession and small possession mutually acquiring each other at the same time; non-possession is not like this, because in the present there is no non-possession. Therefore we know that non-possession does not have small non-possession in the way that possession has [small possession]. With respect to a different sense, there is also the distinction between great and small non-possession: reversing great possession is called great non-possession, which is the non-possession of the original dharma obtained by great possession and its major and minor characteristics; reversing small possession is called small non-possession, which is solely the non-possession of great possession and the four characteristics. Therefore the *Vibhāṣā*, fascicle 158, says: 'The proper explanation is that a dharma and its arising, etc., are obtained by one and the same possession, because a characteristic and what is characterized are extremely intimate. Through this, one correctly resolves how the matter-aggregate, the conditioning-aggregate, etc., are obtained by a single possession.' The above is the treatise's text. Possession and non-possession are established in mutual opposition and cannot fail to correspond. Although there are no great and small non-possessions mutually [possessing] each other, since possession is not infinite, non-possession is also not infinite. Therefore the answer concerning infinite regress explains only possession, which thereby demonstrates that non-possession has no infinite regress, because it is established by reversing possession.