起信論疏筆削記 10.28

10.28

問：何故前喻中，只言風相水相不相捨離，而不云俱無形相耶？答：以前文中但喻不相捨離義，不喻無形相義。以水不起波時亦有相故，風亦如是，但取分喻，故不言無形相也。

Question: Why is it that in the earlier simile it is only said that the mark of the wind and the mark of the water do not abandon and separate from one another, and it does not say that both are without physical form? Answer: Because the earlier text only used a simile for the meaning of not abandoning and separating, not for the meaning of being without physical form. Since even when water does not give rise to waves it still has a form, and the wind is also like this, it merely adopted a partial simile; therefore, it did not state "without physical form."