註華嚴經題法界觀門頌 1.212

1.212

石牛吞華岳，木女產嬰兒。此頌幻色仗緣而生，緣無自性、生無生相，雖生不生也。然幻生幻滅，他豈然哉？或有外疑云：幻而非幻，生而不生。如何是非幻不生之的旨？故下云。

A stone cow swallows Mount Hua; a wooden maiden gives birth to an infant. This gāthā illustrates that illusory form arises relying on conditions; conditions have no self-nature, and arising has no characteristic of arising—though it arises, it does not arise. Yet illusory arising and illusory extinction—how could they be like that for another? Perhaps an outsider doubts: 'Illusion yet non-illusion; arising yet non-arising. What is the precise purport of the non-illusory and non-arising?' Therefore it says below: