中觀論疏 7.7

7.7

'Furthermore, it is not only of suffering that it is spoken'—this is the third, single verse of the chapter, which analogously refutes the remaining phenomena. This verse does not refute the Sarvāstivādins' meaning of suffering. The Sarvāstivādins clarify that the contaminated five aggregates are suffering; if the refutation of suffering is concluded, contaminated phenomena are completely exhausted. Now, external mountains, trees, and the like are all contaminated; therefore, now for the sake of the *Tattvasiddhi* masters, it clarifies that only mind is suffering, while form and unmanifest [matter] are not suffering. The *Tattvasiddhi* masters have two explanations: one says that the two minds of consciousness and conception do not yet have suffering, and only upon reaching feeling is there suffering. The next says that the two minds of consciousness and conception already have suffering, but the feeling aggregate is merely classified as third. Yet both masters agree in clarifying that form and unmanifest [matter] are not suffering, but merely instruments of suffering. Non-Buddhists hold that only painful feeling is suffering, while pleasant feelings and so forth are not suffering. Since these two kinds of people define suffering narrowly, therefore, having finished refuting suffering, one must further analogously refute the remaining phenomena that are not suffering.