[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) › [註華嚴法界觀門](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884) › 1.34 # 註華嚴法界觀門 1.34 註華嚴法界觀門 1.34 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884.1.34) 釋上句也。斷空者，虛豁斷滅，非真實心。無知無用，不能現於萬法。此有二種，謂離色明空及斷滅空。離色空者，空在色外，如牆處不空，牆外是空。斷滅空者，滅色明空，如穿井除土出空，要須滅色也。今簡異此，故云不是斷空也。故《中論》云「先有而後無，是則為斷滅。」然外道小乘皆有斷滅，外道斷滅歸於太虛，二乘斷滅歸於涅槃。故《肇論》云「大患莫若於有身，故滅身以歸無。勞勤莫若於有智，故絕智以淪虛。」又云「形為桎梏，智為雜毒。」《楞伽》云「若心體滅，不異外道斷滅戲論。」 > This explains the first clause. Annihilationist emptiness is empty voidness and extinction; it is not the true mind. Devoid of knowing and devoid of functioning, it cannot manifest the ten thousand dharmas. There are two kinds of this: namely, emptiness \[apprehended by\] departing from rūpa, and emptiness of extinction. Emptiness \[apprehended by\] departing from rūpa means emptiness is outside of rūpa, just as where there is a wall is not empty, while outside the wall is empty. Emptiness of extinction means extinguishing rūpa to clarify emptiness, just as digging a well and removing soil produces an empty space, requiring the necessary extinction of rūpa. Here, to distinguish from this, it is said: "it is not annihilationist emptiness." Therefore the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā says: "Existing first and then becoming non-existent: this is annihilation." However, both non-Buddhists and the Hīnayāna have \[the view of\] annihilation: non-Buddhists' annihilation returns to the great void, while the two vehicles' annihilation returns to nirvāṇa. Hence the Zhaolun says: "Of great afflictions, none is worse than having a body; thus one extinguishes the body to return to non-existence. Of toil and labor, none is worse than having cognition; thus one severs cognition to sink into voidness." It also says: "Form is a shackle; cognition is mixed poison." The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra says: "If the substance of the mind were extinguished, it would not be different from the frivolous discourse of non-Buddhist annihilation." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884.1.33) - [Next: 1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884.1.35) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884~en-mt.1.34) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [華嚴法界玄鏡](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1883.1.23) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884.1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1884.1.34) · Pramāṇa