起信論疏筆削記 10.39

10.39

"Among the four..." is the second part, the critical analysis. The correlation has five pairs: first, the pair of nature-purity and freedom from defilement; second, the pair of cause hidden and fruit manifested; third, the pair of emptiness and existence as essence and function; fourth, the pair of essence and marks; fifth, the pair of space and mirror. That the first and third have the meaning of emptiness: although the word "empty" is the same, the meanings of emptiness are different. For the first is in terms of the cause, where the absence of the essence of delusion is empty; the third is based on the fruit, where freedom from the marks of delusion is empty. That the second and fourth have the meaning of the mirror: the meanings are also different; the second uses the fundamental and the derivative manifesting things as the mirror, while the fourth uses illuminating things according to the occasion as the mirror. However, it is not that the first and third lack the meaning of the mirror, nor that the second and fourth lack the meaning of emptiness; here it merely takes the predominant sense to correlate them, and the rest is as in the main text.