華嚴一乘教義分齊章 4.16

4.16

第二、依他起中，若執有者，亦有二失：一，常過，謂已有體不藉緣故，無緣有法即是常也。又由執有即不藉緣，不藉緣故不得有法，即是斷也。問：「若說依他性是有義，便有失者，何故《攝論》等說依他性以為有耶？」答：「聖說依他以為有者，此即不異空之有。何以故？從眾緣無體性故、一一緣中無作者故，由緣無作，方得緣起，是故即非之有，名依他有。是則聖者不動真際，建立諸法。若謂依他如言有者，即緣起有性。緣若有性即不相藉，不相藉故即壞依他，壞依他者良由執有。是故汝意恐墮空斷，勵力立有，不謂不達緣所起法無自性故，即壞緣起，便墮空無，斷依他故也。」

Second, within the other-dependent nature, if one clings to existence, there are also two faults: First, the fault of permanence: it would mean that it already has a substance and does not depend on conditions; for a phenomenon to exist without conditions is precisely permanence. Furthermore, due to clinging to existence it would not depend on conditions; because it does not depend on conditions, phenomena cannot exist, which is precisely annihilation. Question: "If stating that the other-dependent nature has the meaning of existence entails faults, why do the Mahāyānasaṃgraha and other texts speak of the other-dependent nature as existent?" Answer: "When the noble ones speak of the other-dependent as existent, this is precisely the existence that is not distinct from emptiness. Why is that? Because it lacks substantial nature from the assembly of conditions, and within each individual condition there is no agent; precisely because conditions are without an agent, dependent origination is attained. Therefore, existence that is non-existence is called other-dependent existence. This is how the noble ones establish all phenomena without moving from the true limit. If one asserts that the other-dependent exists according to words, then dependent origination would have a nature. If conditions had a nature, they would not depend on one another; because they would not depend on one another, the other-dependent would be destroyed. The destruction of the other-dependent is truly caused by clinging to existence. Therefore, your mind feared falling into empty annihilation and made strenuous efforts to establish existence, not realizing that through failing to comprehend that phenomena arising from conditions are without self-nature, one thereby destroys dependent origination, falls into empty nonexistence, and annihilates the other-dependent."