金剛般若經贊述 1.129

1.129

Commentary: This is the second, adducing an analogy. Therein, he first adduces the space of the eastern direction, and next adduces the remaining nine directions. In each case, first the Buddha asks, and next Subhūti answers in accord with the Buddha. The meaning is: matters and things such as mountains, rivers, the great earth, stars, and moon all have large and small limits, like giving with marks; only space has no limit, obstruction, or measure of large and small, and thus illustrates giving without marks. Therefore a sūtra says that only space can illustrate the dharmakāya, meaning that the space of the ten directions is boundless and cannot be calculated, just as the merit of giving without marks is manifold, limitless, and unmeasurable. Yet according to Vasubandhu's intention, in matters and things there are various differences—such as male or female, good or evil, this or that—which all arise because of practicing giving with marks, and thus all have many differential limits; if with one's mind attuned to the principle of non-marking and non-differentiation one practices giving, the merit will be limitless and unobstructed, and when attaining Buddhahood in the future, that merit will be all-pervading, without distinctions of this or that, self or other. The principle of non-differentiation refers to the principle of emptiness and selflessness, because it pervades all just like space.