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大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經略疏 2.289

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Subject and object accord with each other. Therefore, the verse on the path of seeing in the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi says: "When regarding the object of cognition, / Wisdom completely attains nothing, / At that time one abides in vijñapti-mātra, / Because one is free from the marks of the two graspings." When wisdom attains nothing, this is "constantly enlightened without abiding." Constant enlightenment is non-conceptual wisdom; non-abiding means not apprehending the marks of various conceptual proliferations. Freedom from the marks of the two graspings is this "illumination and that which illuminates are quiescent": wisdom and tathatā are equally identical, both being free from the marks of grasping subject and grasped object. Although that passage is restricted to the path of seeing, the meaning of realizing principle is not different across the ten bhūmis. It can also be said: not being like ordinary people, it says "constantly enlightened"; not being like those before the bhūmis, it says "without abiding." This is thoughts having no mark of abiding; because one is enlightened to the mark of abiding being non-existent, one does not abide.

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