无始无明

(無始無明, 无始无明)

[lang id =1028]元品無明 (or [lang id =1028]根本無明) The period of unenlightenment or ignorance without beginning, primal ignorance, also called [lang id =1028]無始間隔, the period of transmigration which has no beginning; since under the law of causality everything has a cause, therefore no beginning is possible; for if there were a beginning it would be without cause, which is impossible. Also primal ignorance is without beginning; and the [lang id =1028]真如 is without beginning, the two terms connoting the same idea. [lang id =1028]生死 Birth and death, or transmigration are [lang id =1028]無始無終 also without beginning or end, but about the 'end' there is difference of interpretation.