法界圖記叢髓錄 1.40

1.40

Fa's Record states: As for "relying on principle and according with teaching": "principle" is the ocean seal of forgetting images, meaning that within the Buddha's mind the three worlds are realized, yet the Buddha's realizing mind is entirely without discrimination. "Teaching" is the ocean seal of manifesting images, meaning that the phenomena of the three worlds realized by the Buddha, without moving from their respective positions, have their natures distinctly and clearly manifested in the middle way. Therefore, relying on the principle of forgetting images, one draws a single vermilion line; according with the teaching of manifesting images, one arranges many black characters, making a circular seal. As for "briefly crafting an intertwined poem": the black characters wind along the vermilion line, and the vermilion line winds through the black characters; hence it is called "intertwined." When the black winds through the vermilion, phenomena pervade principle; when the vermilion winds through the black, principle pervades phenomena.