華嚴經義海百門 1.24

1.24

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.