俱舍論疏 22.40

22.40

The treatise says: "As a verse says, up to the non-noble speak of it as pleasure"—this cites scriptural authority as proof. The Nyāyānusāra says: "However, the principle of the four truths has no distinction; whether in the noble or in the ordinary, they are all true as they are. It is based on those who are capable of seeing them that the designation 'noble' is specifically established. Or, the meaning intended is: only the noble contemplate the principle of the four truths with noble practice; at all times their mental modes are without distinction, and the noble practice and the truth-principle thoroughly correspond to each other; thus, according to the practice that follows the truths, the name 'noble truths' is established. It is not like the six worldly non-noble practices, which first contemplate this stage as the three [modes of] calm and so forth, and later contemplate it as the three modes of grossness and so forth; because they do not correspond, [the truths] do not take their name. Or, the meaning intended is: only the noble contemplate the principle of the four truths with noble wisdom; once they attain correct determination, there is no principle of returning to uncertainty; thus the truths follow wisdom to obtain the name 'noble truths.' Precisely by this principle, when noble wisdom contemplates the truths, it obtains the names of the wisdoms of suffering, origin, cessation, and path. Although ordinary wisdom can see the principle of the four truths and attain determination, because it may still become uncertain, the truths do not follow it to obtain the name 'ordinary truths'; therefore, it should only be called conventional wisdom." Question: Why are space and cessation not through deliberation not subsumed under the truths? Vibhāṣā 77 says: "If a dharma is suffering (the truth of suffering), is the cause of suffering (the truth of origin), is the end of suffering (the truth of cessation), or is the antidote to suffering (the truth of the path), the World-Honoured One establishes it as a truth. Space and cessation not through deliberation are not suffering, not the cause of suffering, not the end of suffering, and not the antidote to suffering; therefore the World-Honoured One does not establish them as truths." There are many more explanations, but none equal this explanation.