起信論疏筆削記 2.8

2.8

"How it is demonstrated": what was listed above is merely the dharmas that are demonstrated; it is not yet known by what expedient means they are made manifest. "Skillful" means provisional skill; "means" signifies expedient means. These belong to the demonstrating wisdom of the treatise master. "One flavor of Mahāyāna" is the true principle of the One Mind; it does not differentiate distinctions such as defiled and pure, cause and effect, ordinary being and sage, emptiness and existence, and is thus called "one flavor"; it is named Mahāyāna to distinguish it from the Two Vehicles. The essence of this dharma coincides tacitly with wisdom and is free from all conceptual differentiation, hence it is called "one flavor." If demonstrated relying on verbal explanation, it is opened into two: namely, dharma and meaning. Therefore the treatise states: "Mahāyāna, generally speaking, has two kinds: first, dharma; second, meaning." It further opens dharma into two gates, and expounds meaning into three greatnesses. Therefore the treatise states: "Relying on the dharma of the One Mind there are two gates: first, the gate of the mind as tathatā; second, the gate of the mind as arising and ceasing." It also states: "What is called meaning has three kinds," and so forth, fully as cited previously.