起信論疏筆削記 20.17

20.17

The Commentary text has two parts: first, correctly explaining the purport of the text. Thus the preface to the Commentary says: "Without abandoning conditions it is identical with the real; ordinary beings and sages are brought to unity." This is because it follows conditions without changing. "Because indeed..." The sūtra says: "All sentient beings are tathatā." The earlier text says: "Because all dharmas are identical with true reality." "Therefore, able to..." below is also the same as the earlier text. Cultivating the mind in relation to the objective realm so as to accomplish the practice of calming: since the realm is simultaneously preserved and eliminated, the mind is also simultaneously insight and becoming calming. Distributing and assigning them to the two gates may be seen as the reverse of the preceding.