[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) › [大乘起信論裂網疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850) › 5.38 # 大乘起信論裂網疏 5.38 大乘起信論裂網疏 5.38 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.5.38) 五蘊本性不生者，譬如目有赤眚，妄見燈光五色重疊，實無五色生也。物必有生，然後有滅，既本不生，更何可滅？故云：一切眾生即涅槃相，不可復滅，所謂本來自性清淨涅槃，即生滅是真如體也。若究竟離分別執著者，謂能觀一切妄念無相，則為證得如來智慧，從名字證得乃至究竟證得也。則知一切染法、淨法皆相待立者，染謂無明妄念、淨謂無漏真如，依真有妄、依妄顯真，所以覺與不覺並屬生滅門攝。既相待立，便非實有，便知生滅即不生滅，入真如門，從名字知乃至究竟知也。言一切諸法者，即是染法、淨法，色法、心法，智法、識法，無法、有法，以要言之，五位百法、百界千如種種法也。從本已來非色非心等者，以法法本來皆即真如，非俟成佛方融為真如也。且如色即真如故，本即非色非心、非智非識、非無非有，畢竟不可說相。心即真如故，本即非色非心、非智非識、非無非有，畢竟不可說相。乃至有即真如故，本即非色非心、非智非識、非無非有，畢竟不可說相。以要言之，於諸染、淨法中隨拈一塵，皆是本即非色非心、非智非識、非無非有，畢竟不可說相也。唯其一切俱非，便能一切俱即，便顯離即離非、是即非即之真如矣。 > That the five aggregates are unarisen in their original nature is, for example, like having red cataracts in the eyes and falsely seeing the light of a lamp as layered with five colours, when in reality no five colours have arisen. A thing must have arising and only then have cessation; since it is originally unarisen, how could it be ceased? Thus it is said: all sentient beings are identical with the mark of nirvāṇa and cannot be further ceased; this is what is called the originally self-nature pure nirvāṇa, meaning that arising and ceasing is itself the essence of tathatā. As for being ultimately free from conceptual discrimination and attachment, this means being able to contemplate that all false thoughts are without marks, which constitutes realizing the wisdom of the Tathāgata, from realizing it in name up to ultimate realization. As for knowing that all defiled dharmas and pure dharmas are established in mutual dependence: defilement refers to ignorance and false thoughts, and purity refers to untainted tathatā; relying on the true, the false exists, and relying on the false, the true is revealed; therefore, awakening and non-awakening are both subsumed under the aspect of arising and ceasing. Since they are established in mutual dependence, they are not substantially existent, and one knows that arising and ceasing is non-arising and non-ceasing, entering the aspect of tathatā, from knowing it in name up to ultimate knowing. The phrase 'all dharmas' means defiled dharmas, pure dharmas, form dharmas, mind dharmas, wisdom dharmas, consciousness dharmas, non-existent dharmas, and existent dharmas; in summary, the diverse dharmas such as the five categories and one hundred dharmas, and the one hundred realms and one thousand suchnesses. Regarding 'from the beginning have been neither form nor mind,' and so forth: this is because each and every dharma is originally identical with tathatā, not waiting until one attains Buddhahood to only then fuse into tathatā. For example, since form is identical with tathatā, it is originally neither form nor mind, neither wisdom nor consciousness, neither non-existent nor existent, and ultimately a mark beyond predication. Since mind is identical with tathatā, it is originally neither form nor mind, neither wisdom nor consciousness, neither non-existent nor existent, and ultimately a mark beyond predication. Up to: since existence is identical with tathatā, it is originally neither form nor mind, neither wisdom nor consciousness, neither non-existent nor existent, and ultimately a mark beyond predication. In summary, picking up any single dust-mote among defiled and pure dharmas, it is originally neither form nor mind, neither wisdom nor consciousness, neither non-existent nor existent, and ultimately a mark beyond predication. Only because all are negated can all be affirmed; this reveals the tathatā that is free from identity and free from difference, which is both identical and not identical. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.5.37) - [Next: 5.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.5.39) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850~en-mt.5.38) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.5.38) · Pramāṇa