生命达因

Hence we conclude that there is positively no real Atman; that there are only various consciousnesses which, since before the beginning of time, have followed one another, the subsequent one arising with the disappearance of the antecedent, and thus a continuous series of causes and effects (karmic seeds－actual dharmas－karmic seeds) is formed; and that, by the perfuming energy of false thinking, an image of a pseudo-Atman arises in the consciousness, and it is this pseudo-Atman which the ignorant take for a real Atman.

因此可以确定的说：一定毫无实实在在的我；只有诸识在自己无始开始存在以来，於分段生死中相续不断，自己的存在无始以来前灭后生，在因因果果、果果因因中相续不断，因著业力的虚妄熏习，出现假我的种种现象，就误以为有我，故无知的愚者自以为有ㄧ个实我。（韦达在此将《成唯识论》的「诸识」翻成「几种不同的识」，指的是种子识、末那识、眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意等八个识，在不同时空分段生死中，所起的外延与内涵、作用不同，所以才用「不同的」various一词。其次，他把「无始时来」翻成「since before the beginning of time」，就尚德对佛法的了解而言，佛法所指的「无始」不是指「时间的本身」，而是指众生生命开始的那个时刻，叫做「无始」。----------译者

On closer examination, though, this is not a vote for multilateralism but just the opposite.

仔细审视后我们发现，这并非是对多边主义投出的赞成票，而是恰好相反。

Uncovering their weak spots, so I can defeat them.

揭露出他们的弱点，这样我就可以打败他们了。