瑜伽論記 23.38

23.38

Within the former: 'relying on the middle way' means answering by relying on the middle way. Regarding 'when asking about arising and ceasing among conditioned formations, not superimposing sentient beings and not depreciating real phenomena': this means not superimposing that there are real sentient beings who genuinely arise and cease, because sentient beings are conventionally designated and lack real entitative nature; whereas conditioned phenomena that can be distinguished as arising and ceasing through causes and conditions exist illusory-like with arising and ceasing, and one must not repudiate them by saying that conditioned phenomena lack arising and ceasing, which would constitute depreciation. Positing arising and ceasing solely in terms of conditioned formations is answering without confusion; below this it clarifies freedom from the two extremes.