大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 32.7

32.7

Regarding the Commentary's line, "Neither empty nor existent is the meaning of the middle way": this is the third [part], concluding the establishment of the middle way. However, its primary intention is that, combining the two previous meanings of true emptiness, they are collectively called "not empty"; and combining the two previous meanings of illusory existence, they are both called "not existent"; emptiness and existence being non-dual constitutes the middle way. Furthermore, taking illusory existence as "not empty" and true emptiness as "not existent" are both the meaning of the middle way. In reality, above the emptiness and existence mentioned above there are two middle ways; together with this one they make three, which will be expounded extensively in the harmonization below. The above completes the first gateway of general explanation.