釋摩訶衍論 1.80

1.80

The Commentary states: The sixteen characteristics of entering and entered dharmas are all-pervading, all-pervading, equally, equally of one taste and one characteristic, entirely without difference. Why? Because each subsumes all dharmas completely. If so, then root and branch, as well as general and distinct, would all be blended together into identity; would they not be confounded? Ultimately, their root and branch are not confounded with one another; their general and distinct gateways are not lacking in beginning and end; yet each distinct one is completely of equal measure. Therefore it is said to be equal; it is not called equal because of being a single dharma. The first tier has been explained.

Among the four kinds of dharmas in the second tier, each is replete with three sections. What are the three? First, the section on the decisive reliance of the root dharma; second, the section on the limit of the root subsuming the branches; third, the section on establishing the two kinds of Mahāyāna. 'What is called "dharma" refers to the minds of sentient beings' is the section on the decisive reliance of the root dharma. Now it must be revealed by a summary udāna verse. What are its characteristics? A verse says: