法界圖記叢髓錄 1.81

1.81

The Tanxuan [ji], explaining the sūtra passage stating that a bodhisattva who has initially generated the mind is identical to a Buddha, says: Some say this is explaining the fruit within the cause; some say the understanding is identical to the Buddha's realm; some say it is according to the equality of principle. If according to the teaching of the three vehicles, it can also be explained as above. Now examining the context above and below, according to the One Vehicle perfect teaching, beginning and end mutually subsume one another in perfect interfusion and unimpededness: obtaining the beginning is immediately obtaining the end, and exhausting the end only then completes the beginning. First, because of the mutual subsumption of pratītyasamutpāda of the dhāraṇī gate; second, because the bodhicitta of Samantabhadra universally encompasses the six stages, so that the cause is precisely the fruit; third, because the dharmatā has neither beginning nor end, so that generating the mind to enter the beginning is precisely the end. For this reason, the preceding text says: 'At the moment of first generating the mind, one immediately achieves perfect enlightenment, fully endowed with the body of wisdom, not through realization from another.'