摩訶止觀 10.76

10.76

觀空見即是無明，無明即空，從無明生一切苦集，皆不可得。何者？四倒是橫計，寧有性實？所治之倒非有，能治念處云何可得？乃至覺道皆悉不生，故不可得。故《大品》云「習應苦空」等（云云）。二乘知即空，斷苦入滅；菩薩即空，慈悲願行，誓度眾生。雖度眾生，如度虛空；雖滅煩惱，如與空共鬪；雖生法門，如虛空生；雖滅眾生，實無眾生得滅度者。是智、是斷，是菩薩無生法忍。是名「空見生通教菩薩法界」也。

Contemplating that the view of emptiness is itself avidyā, avidyā is itself empty; all suffering and accumulation born from avidyā are completely unobtainable. Why is this? The four inversions are arbitrary fabrications; how could they have real intrinsic nature? Since the inversions to be cured do not exist, how could the smṛtyupasthāna that can cure them be obtained? Even the path to awakening does not arise at all, and thus it is unobtainable. Therefore the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra says: 'Practicing in accordance with suffering, emptiness,' and so forth (and so on). Those of the two vehicles know that it is itself empty, sever suffering, and enter cessation; the bodhisattva, [realizing] that it is itself empty, gives rise to compassionate vows and practices, vowing to deliver sentient beings. Although delivering sentient beings, it is like delivering empty space; although extinguishing afflictions, it is like fighting with empty space; although generating Dharma-gates, it is like generating empty space; although bringing sentient beings to extinction, in reality no sentient beings attain extinction. This is wisdom, this is severance; this is the bodhisattva's acceptance of the non-arising of dharmas. This is called 'the view of emptiness generating the dharmadhātu of the bodhisattva of the shared teaching'.