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維摩經略疏 9.92

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9.92

Regarding 'Kuśalottara': Contemplating the three truths accords with principle; this good is supreme, and he is named after this. The three karmas are three; how can they be two? This is also the same as the previous explanation. Because the body is not speech, speech is not mind, and so forth, because of these distinctions, they are discussed as two. Moreover, body and speech are material dharmas, while mind is a mental dharma; matter and mind are two. Because of these two, they can activate external characteristics. If one enters into the single true principle, there is not even any difference among the three karmas; how could there be the enacted characteristics of the three karmas? The nature of enacted characteristics and the nature of the three karmas are non-dual and without distinction; this is called the dharma gate of non-duality. In the above, 'Good Eyes' explained that the single characteristic is signlessness, entering the characteristic of equality; this is entering from the gate of signlessness. The four kinds and the space kind are like the characteristic of empty space; this is entering from the emptiness samādhi. Here, explaining that the three karmas are uncreated means that all things are uncreated; entering from the uncreated, the three gates are different, but they together take the Middle Way as their object to enter the non-dual gate in true reality, without difference.

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