宗鏡錄 68.27

68.27

答。有相尚空。無相何有。時亦無體。延促由心。以始從一念。終成於劫。念若不起。時劫本空。但有初中後等時量。皆是唯識之時。廣百論破時品云。復次是則一切若假若實。皆依世俗假相施設。云何汝等。定執諸法。皆是實體。

Answer: What has characteristics is already empty; how could what lacks characteristics exist? Time also has no substance; extension and brevity depend on the mind. For beginning from a single instant, it ultimately forms an eon. If the instant does not arise, the eon is fundamentally empty; there are only measures of time such as beginning, middle, and end, which are all time of vijñaptimātra. The Guǎng bǎi lùn's "Chapter on Refuting Time" says: 'Furthermore, thus all dharmas, whether conventional or real, are designated relying on conventional, provisional characteristics. Why do you definitively grasp all dharmas as having a real substance?'