華嚴經義海百門 1.65

1.65

Third, clarifying producing and revealing causes: the dust mote's essence being empty and still, the meaning of the conditioned origination of the dharmadhātu is revealed only through wisdom, which is the revealing cause (vyañjaka-hetu). Having seen the dust mote's essence, cultivating understanding and practice to give rise to power and function is the producing cause (janaka-hetu). However, production is precisely non-production, returning to identity with the essence of phenomena; revealing is also non-revealing, for how could it equal conditioned arising? Between production and revealing there is no difference: production is spoken of in terms of practice, while revealing is based on essence. The non-essence is precisely essence, so revealing is unarisen; essence is precisely non-essence, so production returns to revealing; they accord in a single realm, without discrimination.