肇論新疏 3.277

3.277

I beg to ask: Are the self and the unconditioned one or different? If the self is identical to the unconditioned and the unconditioned is also identical to the self, one cannot say that "the unconditioned is not different, and the difference comes from ourselves." If the self is different from the unconditioned, then the self is not the unconditioned. The unconditioned is of itself unconditioned, and the self is of itself ever conditioned; the purport of profound communion would then be obstructed and not penetrate.