肇論新疏 2.360

2.360

The first two lines concern delusion. "Treating as things" means grasping; then it turns into names and characteristics. When names and characteristics proliferate, one fails to penetrate the three designations, and therefore it says "displayed in distinction." Great Master Xianshou said: "When true emptiness is obstructed in the mind, it constantly becomes a field of conceptual thoughts. When ultimate reality abides before one's eyes, it turns into a realm of names and characteristics." The latter two lines concern awakening. Things lack a master, and grasping them is also empty; without abandoning names and characteristics, one enters the perfected nature. The last line is suspected to be an error; it should read "immediately identical to things, one is true."