金光明經文句記 3.92

3.92

First, citing two passages from the Great Sūtra. As for "rough words, gentle speech," and so forth: in the teachings of the seven expedients, the three obstacles must be eradicated and all practices must be cultivated; where subject and object are not obliterated, this is called "rough words." In the Perfect Teaching, all cultivated evil is identical to inherent evil; since that which is broken is tranquil, that which breaks naturally forgets itself; words of non-speaking are called "gentle speech." In these rough and gentle [words], right there they are tranquil, and the path of thought and deliberation is cut off; hence it says, "All return to the supreme truth." As for the four noble truths: the suffering of the two kinds of birth-and-death and the accumulation of the five entrenchments, because they are identical to the nature, not one can be abandoned. The path of the myriad practices and the cessation of the three virtues, because they are identical to the nature, have neither cultivation nor realization. When it speaks of severing birth-and-death, it discusses severing in terms of identity. Severance of non-severance leaves nothing unsevered. It also refers to the severance of the suffering of the virtue of the nature. These four, transcending thought, are all the supreme truth. Being able to know this is called attaining the locus.