[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) › [華嚴法界玄鏡](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883) › 2.33 # 華嚴法界玄鏡 2.33 華嚴法界玄鏡 2.33 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883.2.33) 釋曰：此觀有三：初總標舉數、二別顯觀相、三結勸修行。今則初也，即總名之意，以事事無礙。若唯約事，則彼此相礙；若唯約理，則無可相礙。今以理融事，事則無礙，故云事如理融。然理含萬有，無可同喻，略如虛空。虛空中略取二義：一、普遍一切色非色處，即周遍義；二、理含無外，無有一法出虛空故，即含容義。理亦如空，具於二義，無不遍故、無不包故，即事如理，乃至纖塵亦能包遍，故云事如理融，遍攝無礙。攝即含容義。無礙二義：一偏不礙攝、二攝不礙遍，故事事能攝能遍，等皆無礙，其交參自在，亦遍十門。 > The commentary says: This contemplation has three parts: first, generally stating and listing the number; second, separately revealing the contemplation's characteristics; third, concluding with an exhortation to practice. Now this is the first part, which is the meaning of the general title, through the non-obstruction of phenomenon and phenomenon. If one regards phenomena alone, they obstruct one another; if one regards principle alone, there is nothing that can obstruct. Now, by principle interfusing phenomena, phenomena are unobstructed; hence it says "Phenomena, interfused as principle \[is\]." However, principle contains the ten thousand existences and has nothing comparable as a metaphor; it is roughly like empty space. Within empty space, two meanings are briefly taken: first, universally pervading all places of form and non-form, which is the meaning of "all-pervading"; second, principle contains without having anything outside it, as not a single dharma extends beyond empty space, which is the meaning of "total inclusion." Principle is also like space, possessing these two meanings, for there is nowhere it does not pervade, and nothing it does not contain; phenomena being identical to principle, even a minute dust particle is able to contain and pervade; hence it says "Phenomena, interfused as principle \[is\], pervade and subsume without obstruction." "Subsume" is the meaning of total inclusion. "Non-obstruction" has two meanings: first, pervading does not obstruct subsuming; second, subsuming does not obstruct pervading; therefore, phenomenon after phenomenon can subsume and can pervade, equally unhindered, and their interpenetrating with mastery also pervades the ten gates. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883.2.32) - [Next: 2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883.2.34) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883~en-mt.2.33) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883.2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883.2.33) · Pramāṇa