大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 78.5

78.5

Regarding the Commentary's 'there is no need to contemplate and dismantle the gathered lump': the *Diamond Sūtra* says: 'Subhūti! What do you think? Are the dust motes in the great trichiliocosm many?' Subhūti said, 'Extremely many, World-Honoured One!' 'Subhūti, all these dust motes, the Tathāgata says are not dust motes; they are named dust motes. The Tathāgata says that worlds are not worlds; they are named worlds.' Explanation: this section discusses the name. In the tenth [section], on the practitioner's abiding place of contemplating and dismantling within the aggregated grasp of form and sentient beings' bodies, the general meaning is: the worlds of sentient beings are merely formed by gathering dust motes; now, examining from coarse to subtle down to the ultimate atom, none possess a real essence; hence it says that worlds are not worlds. Now saying 'there is no need to contemplate and dismantle' means that contemplating and dismantling is merely a provisional mental construct intended for those who have not yet understood; if one understands that phenomena are fundamentally empty, one does not wait to contemplate and dismantle them. Furthermore, that [text] says 'gathering by taking', while this [text] says 'gathering by clumping'; this is citation according to sense. Therefore Kumārajīva said: 'Desiring to break down the ultimate atom'; Buddhabhadra said: 'Because of the one there is the many; because of the many there is the one. The atom itself has no nature, and is thus empty.' The rest is as explained before.