華嚴經義海百門 1.12

1.12

Sixth, showing concealment and manifestation: When one contemplates that the mark of a dust mote cannot be grasped, marks are exhausted and emptiness appears. Because seeing marks does not mean being identical with principle, phenomena are manifest and principle is concealed. Furthermore, this dust mote and all phenomena mutually support and mutually encompass each other, differing in their persistence and cessation. If the dust mote can encompass the other, then the other is concealed and this is manifest; if the other can encompass the dust mote, then the dust mote is concealed and the other is manifest. Concealment and manifestation are a single realm: now, precisely when manifest, it has already accomplished concealment. Why is this? Because when manifest, it entirely conceals to accomplish manifestation; when concealed, it entirely manifests to accomplish concealment, being established through mutual dependence. Therefore, the time of concealment is precisely manifestation, and the time of manifestation is precisely concealment.