釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 4.50

4.50

二、明治計有無癡病發者，邪念思惟有我無我、有陰無陰等，如前說。立對治者，應教觀果報十二因緣。果報十二因緣者，觀現在歌羅邏時，名曰無明，乃至生老死等。現在即有五陰、十二入、十八界成就，皆從因緣生。此歌羅邏時，即有三事：一、命；二、暖；三、識，故名無明。此既從緣而生，無有自性，不可言有，不可言無，乃至老死亦復如是。若知非空非有，即破空、有二見。當知果報十二因緣觀，即治有無見病，今亦得以此對治，破執因成假惑。

Second, explaining the treatment for the arising of the disease of delusion calculating existence and nonexistence: perverted thinking reflects on having a self or lacking a self, having aggregates or lacking aggregates, etc., as explained before. To establish the counteraction, one should teach the contemplation of the twelve links of dependent origination of karmic retribution. The twelve links of dependent origination of karmic retribution: contemplating the present time of the kalala, it is named ignorance, and so on up to birth, old age, and death. In the present, the five aggregates, twelve sense bases, and eighteen elements are already accomplished, all born from causes and conditions. At this time of the kalala, there are already three things: first, life; second, warmth; third, consciousness; hence it is called ignorance. Since this is born from conditions, it has no self-nature: it cannot be called existent, nor can it be called nonexistent; and so on up to old age and death, it is also like this. If one knows it is neither empty nor existent, one shatters the two views of emptiness and existence. One should know that the contemplation of the twelve links of dependent origination of karmic retribution treats the disease of views of existence and nonexistence; now one can also use this counteraction to shatter the delusion of grasping at provisional composition through causes.