修華嚴奧旨妄盡還源觀 1.44

1.44

Answer: "The Awakening of Faith states: 'If one cultivates cessation, it remedies the ordinary person's abiding attachment to the world and can relinquish the timid and weak views of the two vehicles; if one cultivates contemplation, it remedies the fault of the two vehicles in failing to arouse great compassion due to their narrow inferiority, and distances one from ordinary persons' failure to cultivate good roots.' For this reason, the two gates of cessation and contemplation mutually assist each other and are not parted from each other. If one does not cultivate cessation and contemplation, there is no way to enter the path to bodhi. The Avataṃsaka states: 'Just as a garuḍa uses its left and right wings to beat upon the ocean waters, cleaving them in two, observes the dragons whose lives are about to end, and seizes them; when the Tathāgata appears in the world it is also like this: using great cessation and marvelous contemplation as two wings, he beats upon the ocean waters of sentient beings' great craving, cleaving them in two, observes sentient beings whose faculties have ripened, and delivers them.' In accordance with this meaning, it is essential to cultivate cessation and contemplation."