金剛三昧經論 2.37

2.37

The treatise states: Below this is the sixth [part], the Tathāgata's ratification. Herein there are three parts: first, the direct ratification; second, adducing what is wrong; third, revealing what is correct. In the first part there are also three: a general ratification, a specific ratification, and a concluding confirmation. In the beginning, 'So it is, so it is' ratifies the preceding absence of realization and the subsequent absence of attainment. From 'All...' downward is the second, the specific ratification: first ratifying unarisenness, and then ratifying tranquility and cessation. Regarding 'unarisenness,' this is unarisen practice, ratifying that there is no realizer or attainer. Regarding 'tranquility and cessation,' this is the principle of tranquility and cessation, ratifying that there is nothing realized or attained. In the beginning, 'all mental practices' refers to all the mental practices associated with supramundane non-conceptual cognition; they do not grasp at characteristics and realize the signless, hence it is said, 'do not exceed the signless.' Substantively realizing emptiness and tranquility, they are tacitly unarisen; hence it is said, 'being tranquil in substance and unarisen.'