金剛經纂要刊定記 4.105

4.105

Regarding "meaning abiding, etc.": this is the application to the dharma. Because merit exists within both abiding and non-abiding: proximate, it evokes the abiding merit of the ten kings; ultimate, it brings about the non-abiding merit of bodhi. Furthermore, proximately it obtains the abiding merit of the physical form body; ultimately it obtains the non-abiding merit of the dharmakāya. Although space has no marks, it does not mean there is no space; although merit does not abide, it does not mean there is no merit. Second, its breadth and vastness means it horizontally pervades the ten directions; its height vertically exhausts the three times; its greatness encompasses both horizontal and vertical. According to the above meaning, both dharma and metaphor are great.