[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [維摩經抄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773) › 1.32 # 維摩經抄 1.32 維摩經抄 1.32 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773.1.32) 經曰。如自觀身實相觀佛亦然　述曰。身實相者即真如也。真如無相。佛身亦然　前際不來（已滅故）後際不去（不生故）今則不住（無前後故）不觀色（有空故）不觀色如（空空故）不觀色性（無定故）色即是空。空即是色。義與此同。已下准釋　非四大起（離能造也）六入無積（六根空也因緣積空也聚無實性也）眼耳鼻舌身心已過（超六入也）維摩真身本無生沒隨形化物不動國來。 > The sūtra says: 'Just as I contemplate the true mark of my own body, so too do I contemplate the Buddha.' > The commentary says: The 'true mark of the body' is tathatā. Tathatā is markless; the Buddha's body is also like this. > It does not come from the prior limit (because it is already ceased); it does not go to the subsequent limit (because it is unproduced); in the present it does not abide (because there is no before or after). One does not contemplate form (because existence is empty); one does not contemplate the suchness of form (because emptiness is empty); one does not contemplate the nature of form (because it has no fixed nature). 'Form is emptiness; emptiness is form'—the meaning is the same as this. The subsequent passages are to be explained accordingly. > It does not arise from the four great elements (transcending the productive causes). The six sense entrances have no accumulation (the six sense faculties are empty; dependent origination accumulates emptiness; their aggregation has no real nature). Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are surpassed (transcending the six sense entrances). Vimalakīrti's true body originally has no arising or passing away; conforming to forms to transform beings, he came from the land of Abhirati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773.1.31) - [Next: 1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773.1.33) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773~en-mt.1.32) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773.1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2773.1.32) · Pramāṇa