法界次第初門 3.71

3.71

Tenth, like a magical creation. 'Like a magical creation' means that if devas, ṛṣis, and sages who have attained superknowledges are able to transform various things, just as a magically created person has no birth, aging, sickness, or death, no suffering and no joy, and is also different from human life, for this reason it is empty and lacks reality. All dharmas are also like this: all lack arising and cessation. Furthermore, just as the master of transformations has no fixed objects, but merely produces what he creates by the arising of the mind, none of which has reality; human life is also like this: originally having no cause, it is merely through the mind of the previous life giving rise to the body of the present life, none of which has reality. For this reason, all dharmas are said to be like a magical creation.