維摩義記 3.90

3.90

Concerning the sixth person, first, “Sunetra says,” identifies the person who explains individually. Below, it demonstrates what he explains. First, his saying “The single mark and signlessness are two,” establishes the two marks by antithesis. This distinguishes two different meanings within the real: the single mark is existence, and signlessness is non-existence. Within true dharmas, subsuming the particulars to form the general, the identical substance of all dharmas is called the ‘single mark’; dividing the general by means of the particulars, the fact that all dharmas are entirely empty is called ‘signlessness’. The division into existence and non-existence is called ‘two’. Below, he unifies these two to constitute non-duality. In this approach, the two dharmas share the same substance, which is called non-duality. First he distinguishes it, and then he concludes. “If one knows that the single mark is signlessness”: knowing that existence is non-existence, one also does not grasp non-existence; knowing that non-existence is existence, because it is identical to existence, one does not grasp non-existence one-sidedly. “Entering equality” explains the meaning of ‘entering’. Existence and non-existence share the same substance, free from one-sided attachment; hence it is called ‘equality’. From “This is” onward, he concludes.