妙法蓮華經玄義 2.63

2.63

Apart from this, if one were to construct anything further, what would be cut off? What principle would be revealed? Wandering endlessly, one would fall into conceptual proliferation. That would be the discrimination of deluded feelings, where cutting off relativity is not cut off, and non-cutting off and non-relativity would stand relative to both-relativity and both-cutting off, with words pursuing words, never coming to an end! Why? Words arise from initial thought and sustained thought; if the mind's cogitation does not cease, how can words ever be cut off? It is like a foolish dog chasing a clod: tiring itself in vain, the clods never end. If one can subtly awaken within the realm [of truth], calming the wind of initial and sustained thought, the water of the mind becomes clear and calm, and both words and thoughts are cut off. It is like a clever lion abandoning the clod to chase the person: once the source of the clods is eliminated, the clods are cut off!