肇論 1.83

1.83

The Named said: The sūtras state: 'From the dharmakāya upward, one enters the realm of the asaṃskṛta. The mind cannot be known by knowledge; the form cannot be measured by images. The substance is severed from the skandhas and āyatanas; the mind and wisdom are quieted and extinguished.' Yet they also say: 'Advancing and cultivating the three stages, accumulating virtue ever more broadly.' Now advancing and cultivating is rooted in preference; accumulating virtue is born from seeking. If there is preference, the sentiment of grasping and rejecting appears; if there is seeking, loss and gain are displayed in alternation. Since one takes grasping and rejecting as the mind and loss and gain as the substance, yet says that the substance is severed from the skandhas and āyatanas and that mind and wisdom are quieted and extinguished—these words conflict and their imports diverge, yet bringing them together in a single person is no different from pointing to the south and calling it north to instruct a confused man.