[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大乘百法明門論疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837) › 1.3 # 大乘百法明門論疏 1.3 大乘百法明門論疏 1.3 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837.1.3) 第一、明造論意者，尋夫三界有情，五趣漂溺，循環不息，輪迴無替者，莫不以斷常空有紛糺于懷，所以菩薩降生垂範利物，為除空有兩執，故開空有二門，前明百法有體，為遣執空，後明人法二空，為除有見。所以有體，世諦非無，所以言空，真諦何有？隨病說藥，病息藥亡，執藥成病，悟病成藥，非空非有，即有即空，既絕百非，又亡四句。然因詮顯旨，故假論以明，既不說而說，亦聽無所聽，論之興也，其在茲乎！此即第一明造論意。 > First, as for clarifying the purpose of composing the treatise: When one contemplates sentient beings of the three realms, drifting and drowning in the five destinies, revolving unceasingly, transmigrating without respite, there are none who are not tangled in mind by \[the views of\] annihilation and permanence, emptiness and existence. Therefore the Bodhisattvas descended into birth, setting an example to benefit beings. To eliminate both clingings to emptiness and existence, they opened the two gateways of emptiness and existence. By first clarifying that the hundred dharmas possess intrinsic substance, they dispel the clinging to emptiness; by subsequently clarifying the two types of emptiness—of person and of dharmas—they eradicate the view of existence. As for having intrinsic substance, on the level of conventional truth (saṃvṛti-satya) it is not non-existent; as for being called empty, on the level of ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya) what exists? Medicine is prescribed according to the sickness; when the sickness ceases, the medicine is discarded. To cling to the medicine becomes a sickness; to awaken from the sickness becomes the medicine. Neither empty nor existent, simultaneously existent and empty, it completely terminates the hundred negations and dissolves the four extremes. Yet, because the ultimate purport is revealed through exposition, a treatise is provisionally used to elucidate it. Since it is preached without preaching and listened to with nothing to be heard, the arising of the treatise truly lies in this! This is the first \[section\], clarifying the purpose of composing the treatise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837.1.2) - [Next: 1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837.1.4) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837~en-mt.1.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1837.1.3) · Pramāṇa