華嚴經義海百門 1.24

1.24

四、不生滅者，謂塵從風起散，而有生滅之相。今推生相、滅相悉皆空無，經云「因緣故法生，因緣故法滅。」由生時是無性生，由滅時是無性滅，以無性故，生即不生、滅亦不滅。

Fourth, neither arising nor ceasing: this means that a dust mote is raised and scattered by the wind, thus possessing the marks of arising and ceasing. Now investigating them, the marks of arising and the marks of ceasing are all completely empty and non-existent. The sūtra says: "Because of causes and conditions phenomena arise; because of causes and conditions phenomena cease." Because at the time of arising it is an arising without intrinsic nature, and at the time of ceasing it is a ceasing without intrinsic nature; because there is no intrinsic nature, arising is non-arising and ceasing is non-ceasing.