法界圖記叢髓錄 2.3

2.3

The Great Record states: Regarding "It first states: 'The essential substance of pratītyasamutpāda is the One Vehicle dhāraṇī...'" and so forth: the essential substance of pratītyasamutpāda applies generally to the ten universal phenomena; yet saying that the true nature refers only to the gate of sentient beings is because the text below states, "Now we shall provisionally take one gate to reveal the meaning of pratītyasamutpāda, explaining it in terms of the twelve links." Question: Why was the meaning of the realization of practice previously matched with the realization aspect? Answer: If there were a practitioner who cultivated relying solely on the realization aspect, or cultivated relying solely on the teaching aspect, that would not be true practice. The Upādhyāya's intention was that practicing while treading both the realization [aspect] and the teaching [aspect] constitutes true practice; thus it is so. Why is the meaning of the fulfillment of realization matched with the pratītyasamutpāda aspect? Just as when indicating the phenomena contained in the universal characteristic, one unfolds its particular characteristics, so too, wishing to manifest the fulfilling phenomena within the realization aspect, he analyzes the true nature; thus it is so.