The Wisdom Realm of the Forbearance of the Non-Arising of Dharmas (anutpattika-dharma-kṣānti)

Volume 449 of the Great Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra states (Taishō 7, p. 264b): ‘如是不退转菩萨摩诃萨，以自相空，观一切法，已入菩萨正性离生，乃至不见少法可得。不可得故，无所造作。无所造作故，毕竟不生。毕竟不生故，名无生法忍。由得如是无生法忍故，名不退转菩萨摩诃萨。’

This means that when a bodhisattva contemplates the emptiness of all dharmas and enters the bhūmi of the path of seeing, he first sees the principle that all dharmas ultimately do not arise; this is called the patience with the non-arising of dharmas.

Explanation: After a bodhisattva who has seen his true mind and attained enlightenment becomes non-retrogressive, he observes that the appearances of his own five aggregates and eighteen realms are all empty. Expanding from this perspective, he observes that all other dharmas are also empty, that none of them has ever truly arisen, and that not a single dharma in the world can be obtained. A bodhisattva who can contemplate in this way has genuinely realized the emptiness of all dharmas and the non-arising of all dharmas, which is equivalent to the liberative state of a fourth-fruit arhat. Because all dharmas cannot be obtained, all dharmas involve no fabricating activity; because there is no fabricating activity, all dharmas ultimately do not arise—none of them has ever been born. Because he has realized that all dharmas ultimately do not arise and accepts this principle, this is the patience with the non-arising of dharmas. Having attained this patience with the non-arising of dharmas, he no longer regresses on the great path of unsurpassed bodhi and forever walks the bodhisattva path.

The patience with non-arising only knows the emptiness of the personhood of the five aggregates, whereas the patience with the non-arising of dharmas not only realizes the emptiness of the personhood of the five aggregates, but also realizes that all dharmas are empty. Its scope is extremely broad and its depth extremely profound; it is beyond what pre-bhūmi bodhisattvas (pūrvabhūmika bodhisattva) and arhats can compare with. Post-bhūmi bodhisattvas (bhūmi-pratiṣṭhita-bodhisattva), because they possess the wisdom of the patience with the non-arising of dharmas, apart from cultivating practice and propagating the Dharma, do not engage in worldly affairs, do not seek worldly benefit, do not delight in fame, profit, and offerings, and devote themselves single-mindedly to the Buddha's path.