弘明集 9.37

English (machine translation) 9.37

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9.37

Answer: Because the essence of arising and ceasing necessarily has its sequence. What arises suddenly must perish suddenly; what arises gradually must perish gradually. Those that arise suddenly are gusts and torrential downpours; those that arise gradually are animals and plants. Having the sudden and having the gradual is the principle of things.

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弘明集 — 僧祐, Classical Chinese