二諦義 2.28

2.28

Question: How are all dharmas together the meaning of conventional? For the moment, we cite analogies to resolve it. Your school has the meanings of specific relativity and universal relativity. Long and short, ultimate and conventional, cause and effect in relativity are specific relativity; long relative to not-long, conventional relative to not-conventional, this is universal relativity. Why conventional relative to not-conventional is universal relativity: it clarifies that, besides conventional, all are not-conventional; hence it is called universal relativity. All dharmas are not-conventional; not-conventional is relative to conventional; since not-conventional is the meaning of conventional, all are the meaning of conventional. Furthermore, it is a general sorting out of the meaning of relativity. Heretofore it was said that long and short are relative, cause and effect are relative, but the two effects of bottle and cloth cannot be relative. Now it is clarified that the two effects of bottle and cloth are mutually relative.