妙法蓮華經玄義 8.30

8.30

若能知字非字，無明即滅，不至於行，乃至不至老死，無明滅則老死滅，當知此字是辟支佛本。若知字即空，非滅已空，字性本空，空中無愛恚，乃至無邪正，字不可得，知字者誰？云何眾生妄生取捨？起慈悲誓願，行六度，濟眾生，入如實際，亦無眾生得滅度者，當知此字是菩薩本。

If one can know characters to be non-characters, ignorance ceases, not proceeding to formations, up to not proceeding to aging and death; with the cessation of ignorance, aging and death cease: one should know these characters are the root of pratyekabuddhas. If one knows that characters are identical to emptiness—not empty after being annihilated, but the nature of characters is inherently empty, within emptiness there being neither craving nor anger, up to neither wrong nor right, characters being unobtainable—who is it that knows characters? How could sentient beings deludedly generate grasping and rejecting? Raising compassionate vows, practicing the six perfections, saving sentient beings, entering the limit of reality, yet there being no sentient beings who attain extinction and crossing over: one should know these characters are the root of bodhisattvas.