瑜伽師地論略纂 7.16

7.16

"If this does not exist, how are internal and external established and accomplished?" etc.: below there are six questions of 'how', continuing from the preceding to introduce what follows. The meaning of this asks: If there is no self, how are internal and external established? The second question asks: If everything is empty, how can there be a noble one who observes and an empty object that is observed? The third question asks: If both observer and observed are empty, how can there be a distinction between noble and ordinary? The fourth question asks: If ordinary and noble do not exist, how can there be a distinction between one who teaches and one who is transformed? The fifth question asks: If there is neither teacher nor one transformed, how can there be defiled and purified ones? Here, the first answers that phenomena are designated and not real; the second answers that persons and phenomena are not real; the latter three answer only that there is no self; the sixth asks and answers concerning the real function of phenomena. "Respectively, master and agent are both non-existent" means that there is no sustainer and no master. "Without driving/compelling" means there is no agent.