Chapter Twenty-One: Analysis of Arising and Disintegration
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Disintegration occurs neither apart from
Nor together with arising. Arising occurs neither apart from Nor together with disintegration. [21.1] Disintegration without arising, How could this occur? There would be dying without birth. Without arising, there is no disintegration. [21.2] Disintegration together with arising How could this occur? Death does not take place At the very same time as birth. [21.3] Arising without disintegration, How could this occur? It is not that things Ever lack impermanence. [21.4] Arising together with disintegration, How could this occur? Birth does not occur At the very same time as death. [21.5] When two things are neither Established as coexistent, Nor as not coexistent, How can they be established? [21.6] There is no arising of the ceased, Nor is there arising of the not ceased. There is no disintegration of the ceased, Nor is there disintegration of the not ceased. [21.7] Where there is no thing, There is no arising and no disintegration. Without arising and disintegration, There is no thing. [21.8] With respect to the empty, Arising and disintegration make no sense. With respect to the not empty, Arising and disintegration make no sense either. [21.9] Arising and disintegration Do not make sense if the same. Arising and disintegration Do not make sense if different. [21.10] If you think, “I see arising and disintegration,” Then know that what you see Is due to ignorance. [21.11] Things do not arise from things. Things do not arise from nonthings. Nonthings do not arise from nonthings. Nonthings do not arise from things. [21.12] Things do not arise from themselves Nor from something other than themselves. When nothing arises from either self or other, How could there be arising? [21.13] If the existence of things is claimed, Views of permanence and annihilation follow Because these things must then Be permanent or annihilated. [21.14] Although the existence of things is claimed, Permanence and annihilation do not follow Because existence is the continuum of effects and causes That arise and disintegrate. [21.15] If a continuum of arising and ceasing Causes and effects constitutes existence, That which is destroyed does not arise again And so causes are annihilated. [21.16] If things have an essential nature, They cannot reasonably become nonexistent. When suffering is transcended there is annihilation, For the continuum of existence is then entirely pacified. [21.17] If the last ceases, The first existence does not make sense. When the last does not cease, The first existence does not make sense. [21.18] If the last is in the process of ceasing While the first arises, There is one that is ceasing And another that arises. [21.19] Hence, it does not make sense either For ceasing and arising to occur together. Could the aggregates with which one dies Be the ones with which one is born as well? [21.20] Therefore, nowhere in the three times, Could there reasonably be any continuum of existence. How could something outside of the three times Be the continuum of existence? [21.21] <- Prev Next ->
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