法界圖記叢髓錄 1.139

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古記云：問：古德云：因緣堂作則得成、不作則不得成，緣起堂作則不得成、不作則得成。此義云何？答：同相舍有作之作，成相舍無作之作故也。同相成相相對說，則同相者緣起現前義，成相者緣起無性義。成相壞相相對說，則成相者不作之作故，無性緣起義；壞相者作之不作故，緣起無性義也。古辭云：始從柱底石、終梁上瓦，方立全舍者，遍計堂。荷斧打木，隨一一打立全舍者，因緣堂。斧不墮木、木不犯斧立全舍者，緣起堂。木芽青時立全舍者，性起堂也。就於性起中，木種下時立全舍者，無住堂。種即真者，實相堂也。康藏云：何是舍耶？椽即是舍。何以故？為椽全獨能作舍故。乃至問：若椽全獨能作舍者，未有瓦等亦應作舍。答：未有瓦等時不是椽，故不作（已上）。問：雖無瓦等，現見是椽，何故云無瓦時不是椽耶？答：遍計之難耳。大經云「智海廣無涯，未測返增謗。」可不慎哉。母以有生滅心疑實相理。我此普法因緣之椽，自是一椽，即攝自類餘椽。若一尺栱、若八尺柱，乃至瓦焉石焉，鍊木之工，燔瓦之父等，一切諸法普皆攝盡，作舍究竟，然後方得為是椽故。是以爾也。古人云：今日採柱欲作昨日已成之舍。若爾，昨日已成之舍無柱而成耶？既云今日採柱欲作昨日已成之舍，故知昨日已成之舍非無柱而成矣（已上）。是故舍成方是柱，又舍成方是椽也。

The Ancient Record says: Question: Ancient masters said: "The hall of causes and conditions, if made, is accomplished; if not made, is not accomplished. The hall of pratītyasamutpāda, if made, is not accomplished; if not made, is accomplished." What is the meaning of this? Answer: The house of identical characteristic involves the action of acting; the house of integrating characteristic involves the action of non-acting. When identical characteristic and integrating characteristic are spoken of in opposition: identical characteristic is the meaning of pratītyasamutpāda being present before one; integrating characteristic is the meaning of pratītyasamutpāda being devoid of self-nature. When integrating characteristic and disintegrating characteristic are spoken of in opposition: integrating characteristic, being non-acting action, is the meaning of natureless pratītyasamutpāda; disintegrating characteristic, being the non-action of action, is the meaning of pratītyasamutpāda being devoid of self-nature. An ancient text says: "Starting from the base stone of the pillar and ending at the tiles upon the beam, only then establishing the complete house—this is the hall of conceptual construction. Holding an axe and striking the wood, establishing the complete house with each and every blow—this is the hall of causes and conditions. The axe not falling upon the wood and the wood not violating the axe, yet establishing the complete house—this is the hall of pratītyasamutpāda. When the wood's sprout is green, establishing the complete house—this is the hall of nature manifestation. Within nature manifestation, when the seed of the wood is planted, establishing the complete house—this is the hall of non-abiding. When the seed is precisely the real, it is the hall of true reality." Kangzang says: "What is the house? The rafter is precisely the house. Why? Because the rafter completely and solely can make the house." Up to: "Question: If the rafter completely and solely can make the house, when there are not yet tiles and so forth, it should also make the house. Answer: When there are not yet tiles and so forth, it is not a rafter; therefore, it does not make [it]" (end of quotation). Question: Although there are no tiles and so forth, we presently see that it is a rafter; why say that when there are no tiles it is not a rafter? Answer: This is merely an objection based on conceptual construction. The Great Sūtra says: "The ocean of wisdom is vast and without shore; failing to fathom it, one instead increases slander." How can one not be cautious! Do not, with a mind of arising and ceasing, doubt the principle of true reality. This rafter of the causes and conditions of the universal Dharma of ours, being a single rafter, subsumes all other rafters of its own kind. Whether a one-foot bracket or an eight-foot pillar, down to tiles and stones, the carpenter who shapes the wood, the craftsman who fires the tiles, and so forth—all phenomena are universally and completely subsumed; only after the house is made completely can it then be considered a rafter. Hence it is so. An ancient said: "Today I fell a pillar, intending to make yesterday's already completed house. If so, was yesterday's already completed house accomplished without a pillar? Since he said, 'Today I fell a pillar, intending to make yesterday's already completed house,' we know that yesterday's already completed house was not accomplished without a pillar" (end of quotation). Therefore, only when the house is completed is it a pillar, and only when the house is completed is it a rafter.