[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) › [起信論疏筆削記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848) › 7.22 # 起信論疏筆削記 7.22 起信論疏筆削記 7.22 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.7.22) 離言者，不可說故。絕慮者，不可念故。以前文云：離名字相，離心緣相。故此結也。然一切眾生從無始來執相迷性，不能即妄會真，雖終日行而不自覺，故今示真而約生滅也。學大乘者，須終日不食、終夜不寐，以思此事。何曾是無聖凡、依正、空色等時？何處真體不常顯現？何有一法不是性為？何有一法體不空寂？又空法何嘗得離真性？苟或不同此說，則墮斷常，無有是處。是故論中每節顯真，皆言一切法也。 > "Free from speech" means because it cannot be spoken. "Severed from deliberation" means because it cannot be thought. Because the preceding text said: "Free from the mark of names, free from the mark of mental cognition," it now concludes thus. However, all sentient beings from beginningless time have grasped at marks and been confused about the nature, unable to identify delusion and converge with the real; though acting all day long, they are not aware of it themselves. Therefore, it now indicates the real in terms of arising and ceasing. Practitioners of the Mahāyāna must go all day without eating and all night without sleeping to ponder this matter. When has there ever been a time without noble and ordinary, circumstantial and direct \[retribution\], emptiness and form? Where is the real essence not constantly manifest? What single dharma is not made by the nature? What single dharma is not empty and quiescent in essence? Moreover, how could empty dharmas ever be separated from the real nature? If one does not agree with this explanation, one will fall into annihilationism or eternalism, and there is no truth in it. Therefore, whenever the śāstra reveals the real in each section, it always speaks of "all dharmas." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.7.21) - [Next: 7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.7.23) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848~en-mt.7.22) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.7.22) · Pramāṇa