瑜伽論記 20.62

20.62

First, the text clarifies that fully knowing the parikalpita nature has eleven characteristics. 1. Grasping merely by name; 2. signless nature; 3. absence of arising and ceasing; 4. absence of defilement and purity; 5. primordial nirvāṇa—former venerable masters explained these words as presenting the antidote to reveal the conceptualized nature that is to be antidoted. The present explanation is: It is not so. Precisely because it is utterly non-existent, it is an absence of intrinsic nature; it is not non-existence due to dispelling, etc., as the preceding text states, and primordial quiescence, etc., is stated in terms of the non-arising of signs; 6. not belonging to the three times; 7. not bound or unbound by the three realms; 8. neither bondage nor liberation; 9. not the three feelings; 10. being of only one flavor; 11. like empty space—because empty space lacks an entity, it is brought up as a simile. The first nine list the specific characteristics; the latter two are general characteristics.