宗鏡錄 68.27

68.27

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?'