English
O. If, due to blue, one looks to yellow and so forth, then it is because it is determined to be non-existent through looking. Just as blue is what completely abandons non-things, it is also the same for not being confused with non-existent yellow and so forth. Now, things and non-things are truly contradictory, and things are contradictory in that they are not confused with non-existence. Furthermore, what is determined to be non-existent in other places? It is the thing that possesses a definite aspect, but not an indefinite aspect, such as momentariness and so forth. Momentariness is the nature of all blue and so forth, so it is not a definite aspect. Therefore, there is nothing that appears to abandon momentariness. If that is the case, would non-things also become indefinite aspects? How could it become something called a definite aspect? Because non-things are discriminations that are empty in essence. Therefore, whether it is seeing or examining, the very nature of certainty is what determines non-existence in other places, not something called uncertainty. In that case, examination and ghosts, etc., also become examinations of definite aspects, and observing this is also contradictory to the oneness of essence, for those that exist by mutually abandoning each other do not possess oneness. Precisely because of this, this is called a contradiction arising from the change of characteristics, because this is the necessity of the nature of things. This contradiction must distinguish the very nature of things as different. Precisely because of this, whatever is the negation of the nature of appearance must be negated after acknowledging that it is appearance itself. For example, when non-things and meat-eaters want to negate yellow, then at that time it must be negated only by the essence of appearance, so it must be negated after acknowledging that it is appearance itself. For example, when non-things and meat-eaters want to negate yellow, then at that time it must be negated only by the essence of appearance, so it must be negated after acknowledging that it is appearance itself, and only from the non-observation of appearance. Even so, when completely determining the essence of one thing, one should distinguish the things that can be regarded as non-existent, and the visible things with definite aspects that determine their non-existence.