觀心論疏 2.14

2.14

Next, to answer the third question above, 'How does one raise thirty-six questions with reference to the single phrase "self-arising"?': The sūtra says, 'Not contemplating internally does one attain this wisdom, up to not contemplating internally and externally does one attain this wisdom, nor apart from contemplating internally and externally does one attain this wisdom.' Now it is also like this: seeking arising through the four tetralemmas is impossible, yet it is also not apart from the four tetralemmas of self and other. The author of the treatise also clarifies that not arising means not being existent, and not ceasing means not being non-existent; because it is not non-existent, one can raise thirty-six questions with reference to the single phrase 'self-arising'. The rest—other-arising, arising from both, and causeless arising—are also like this.