釋門歸敬儀 2.80

2.80

Seven, explaining the arousal of the bodhicitta. Bodhi means 'awakening'; awakening oneself and awakening others, hence one is called a Buddha. Since the practitioner is already in the Buddha's Dharma, they are a seed of the Buddha; they must arouse the quest for awakening, consciously contemplating and delivering [beings]. This is the ford and bridge to the Buddha fruit, the root for accomplishing the myriad practices, like space containing the myriad forms, like the ocean receiving the hundred rivers. If one does not first establish this mind, then upon initiating practice one will become lost and submerged. What is the characteristic of this bodhi? If one now wishes to arouse this mind, there are principle and practice; based on conditions they are two, but in meaning they penetrate each other. Otherwise, ultimate and conventional will contradict each other, which is not the meaning of the true Dharma.