肇論新疏 3.388

3.388

This reveals the substance of the dark stillness of mind and object mentioned before. In the first line, it is distinguished according to the final teaching. As the Great Commentary says: 'The mind darkly unites with the supreme Way, blending antiquity and the present into one.' According to the sudden teaching, a single thought does not arise and the front and rear limits are severed; what antiquity or present could there be? Relying on the perfect teaching, the two characteristics of antiquity and present are mutually identified and rounded into fusion. Its connection is especially seen. In the next line, because beginning and end are the same, in the nirvāṇa of the three vehicles initial realization is not a beginning and realizing the ultimate is not an end. Root and branches are principle and phenomena, because ocean and wave share one wetness. 'Vast' means vast and billowing, boundless and manifold. 'Grandly equal' means sentient and insentient are without difference, defiled and non-defiled are equal; there has never been a single dharma that is not nirvāṇa.