Korea Journal of Buddhist Studies ISSN:1598-0642(Print) 불교학연구

Fazang says that the mutual origination of three presents which don’t go along together (不俱) becomes secret, while the mutual origination of past’s three generations which go along together (俱) becomes manifest. He says further that what enables nine generations to be one moment is the mutual adaptability between actuality and principle (法性融通). Heidegger’s concept that corresponds to this mutual adaptability is the very fourth dimension of original time, which means the interplay of each toward each among three dimensions. He says that the common origin of time, being, and human is the Appropriation (das Ereignis) which determines time, being, and human in what is proper to them, i. e. in their belonging together. According to him, one peculiar property of the Appropriation is self-withholding. This means, with regard to time, that it conceals the origin of giving of time and that in the sending of past and future a denial of present and its withholding are at play. Such a concealing reminds us Fazang’s saying that the mutual origination of three generations which don’t go along together becomes secret; and a denial of present and its withholding in the reaching of past and future remind us Fazang’s saying that the present of present exists, but the past of present and the future of present don’t exist. According to Heidegger, another peculiar property of the Appropriation is that human being has attained its own distinction by participating in the Appropriation, i. e. in perceiving and receiving the approaching of presencing within time-space. This peculiar property of the Appropriation can be deliberated with regard to the Fazang’s explanation of the arising of nature (性起).