華嚴經義海百門 1.54

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六、融念劫者，如見塵時，是一念心所現，此一念之心現時，全是百千大劫。何以故？以百千大劫由本一念方成大劫，既相成立，俱無體性。由一念無體，即通大劫；大劫無體，即該一念。由念劫無體，長短之相自融，乃至遠近世界、佛及眾生、三世一切事物，莫不皆於一念中現。何以故？一切事法依心而現，念既無礙，法亦隨融，是故一念即見三世一切事物顯然，經云「或一念即百千劫，百千劫即一念。」

Sixth, fusing the thought-moment and the kalpa: when one sees the dust mote, it is manifested by a single thought of the mind; when this single thought of the mind manifests, it is entirely hundreds of thousands of great kalpas. Why is this? Because hundreds of thousands of great kalpas become great kalpas only on the basis of the original single thought; since they mutually establish one another, neither has intrinsic nature. Because a single thought has no intrinsic essence, it penetrates the great kalpas; because the great kalpas have no intrinsic essence, they encompass the single thought. Because the thought-moment and the kalpa have no intrinsic essence, the characteristics of long and short naturally fuse, and even distant and near worlds, buddhas and sentient beings, and all things of the three times without exception appear within a single thought. Why is this? All phenomena appear relying on the mind; since the thought-moment is unobstructed, phenomena also fuse accordingly. Therefore, within a single thought, one sees all things of the three times clearly apparent. The sūtra says: 'Sometimes a single thought is precisely hundreds of thousands of kalpas, / And hundreds of thousands of kalpas are precisely a single thought.'