法界圖記叢髓錄 1.67

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道身章云：相和尚曰：「一微塵中含十方世界者，同是無住故爾。」元師問云：「微塵無住小，十方世界無住大耶？」答：「一量也。」問：若爾，何言塵小、十方世界大耶？答：微塵與十方世界各無自性，唯無住耳。所言塵小世界大者，是須處須耳，非是小故云小、大故云大。所謂不知塵小世界大，機中令知塵小世界大故，且說塵小世界大耳，非是一向塵小自性世界大自性矣。亦得云塵大世界小，道理齊一無住實相也。

The Daoshen zhang says: Master Xiang said, "That an individual atom contains the worlds of the ten directions is because both are equally non-abiding." Master Yuan asked, "Is the atom's non-abiding small, and the non-abiding of the worlds of the ten directions large?" He answered, "They are of one measure." He asked, "If so, why is it said that the atom is small and the worlds of the ten directions are large?" He answered, "The atom and the worlds of the ten directions each lack self-nature; there is only non-abiding. As for speaking of the atom as small and the worlds as large, it is simply [stated] according to whatever the context requires; it is not that it is called small because it is inherently small, or called large because it is inherently large. What is meant is that because, among faculties that do not understand that the atom is small and the worlds are large, one causes them to understand that the atom is small and the worlds are large, one provisionally speaks of the atom as small and the worlds as large; it is not that the atom exclusively has a small self-nature and the worlds have a large self-nature. One could also say that the atom is large and the worlds are small, for in their principle they are uniformly one in the true reality of non-abiding."