起信論疏筆削記 16.6

16.6

1. The conditions of attachment. The treatise: 'The dharmakāya is like empty space': the Jin guangming jing says: 'The Buddha's true dharmakāya is just like empty space.' The Avataṃsaka-sūtra says: 'Samantabhadra's bodily mark is like empty space.' The Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa says: 'Untainted by the world like a lotus flower, always well entering into the practice of emptiness and quiescence, penetrating all marks of dharmas without obstruction; I bow my head to that which, like space, has nothing on which it relies.' Another sūtra says: 'Empty space has neither middle nor edge; the bodies of all Buddhas are also like this; because they neither arise nor cease, I pay homage to that which has nothing to be contemplated.' Such texts are extremely numerous and cannot all be cited.