起信論疏筆削記 19.22

19.22

論　以一切下，二、釋成。疏　順法性者，雖言一切法，意在真性，以一切法悉皆真故，皆同如故，廣如真如門說，斯則離心緣相也。轉釋等者，科指此文。良以下，釋此文意。前言法性本無想者，實由想體自空，本自不生，今則無滅，此蓋本空，非推之使空也。此乃下，會釋文旨。非謂待無念時方始不生不滅，以念念生處即是無生，念念滅時即是不滅，如經云：初生即有滅，不為愚者說。又經云：當處出生，隨處滅盡。喻明可見。

The Treatise states: "Because all..." downward: Second, explaining and establishing. The Commentary states: "conforming to dharmatā": although it says "all dharmas," the intention lies in the true nature; because all dharmas are completely true and all are identical with tathatā, as explained extensively in the gate of tathatā, this then is transcending the marks of mental cognition. As for "further explaining...", the outline points to this text. From "Truly because..." downward explains the meaning of this passage. The previous statement that dharmatā fundamentally lacks thought is truly because the essence of thought is itself empty: fundamentally it is not born, and now it has no extinction; this is fundamental emptiness, not an emptiness achieved by deducing it to be empty. From "This then..." downward synthesizes and explains the import of the text: it does not mean that one must wait for a time of no-thought before unarisen and unextinguished begin; for the very place where thought arises moment to moment is itself non-arising, and the very time thought ceases moment to moment is itself non-extinction. As the sūtra states: "At the very moment of arising there is extinction—this is not spoken for the foolish." Another sūtra states: "It arises right where it is, and is extinguished right where it is." The analogy makes this clear and visible.