法華遊意 1.83

1.83

The dharmakāya has neither long ago nor recent; because the dharmakāya has neither long ago nor recent, one knows that awakening also has neither long ago nor recent. Why is this so? Awakening fundamentally awakens to the dharmakāya; since the dharmakāya has neither long ago nor recent, one knows that awakening also has neither long ago nor recent. If so, then Śākyamuni’s awakening long ago was in reality without ‘long ago’; you should know that present recent awakening is also without ‘recent’. Therefore we know that distant awakening is also without ‘distant’; hence we know that recent and distant are non-dual, dual yet non-dual, without losing ancient and modern.