仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 2.108

2.108

The commentary explains: 'If anyone cultivates prajñā...' means that if one speaks or listens, one forgets the marks of speaking and listening. 'Like...' uses metaphors to clarify: two lines illustrate the persons, and two lines illustrate the dharmas. 'Like illusory people': illusory people are like wooden automatons; though they move, they have no master. Contemplating the body as illusory, though there is speaking and listening, one forgets the marks of speaking and listening because one does not discriminate. 'The dharmas are identical to the dharmatā, just like empty space': 'dharmas' above refers to all understood dharmas of principle and phenomena. 'Identical to the dharmatā' refers to tathatā. One vigorously practices what has been understood, realizing that characteristics are identical to nature, just like empty space. Next is the second section, concluding the emptiness of persons and dharmas.