淨名玄論 7.37

7.37

Next, it is explained that although there are four assemblies, the text has three [divisions]. From the first chapter to the “Chapter on the Buddha Way”, it explains the dual Dharma gates. Next, the “Chapter on the Dharma Gate of Nonduality” explains the Dharma gate of nonduality. Third, from “Sarvagandhasugandhā” to the end of the sūtra, it returns to explaining dual practices. First, it explains the causes and results of the pure land and the dharmakāya; in order to reveal what is neither cause nor result, it subsumes cause and result into nonduality. Next, from nonduality it again gives rise to dual functions. Such duality-nonduality and nonduality-duality are both the principle of dependent origination. Because of nonduality there is duality; because of duality there is nonduality: this is duality-nonduality, called nonduality-duality. Because of duality-nonduality, it is not nondual; because of nonduality-duality, it is not dual. Therefore, it is neither dual nor nondual; its traces cannot be tracked, so it is called inconceivable. Buddhas and bodhisattvas abide in this inconceivability; therefore, being neither dual nor nondual, they can be dual and can be nondual. Although they can be dual and can be nondual, there has never been duality or nonduality; hence, duality and nonduality are unobstructed, which is called liberation. Since this is so regarding cause and result in terms of subsumption and active arising, the same is true of illness and non-illness, provisional and real, conceivable and inconceivable. The explanation of conceivable and inconceivable is precisely to reveal the nondual meaning of neither conceivable nor inconceivable. Since the supreme Way is not conceivable, how could it be inconceivable? Therefore the Avataṃsaka says: “With vigorous and diligent right mindfulness, thought arises from thought, yet one does not think of thought, because dharmas are quiescent.” Because it is neither conceivable nor inconceivable, it can be conceivable and can be inconceivable; therefore the meaning of active arising is explained.