摩訶止觀 6.57

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非空非有門者：如《釋論》明車匿心調柔軟，當為說《那陀迦旃延經》，離有離無，乃可得道。此觀亦能破單、複諸見、八十一思；從假入空，成惑智、因果等無生，即是三藏非有非無門破假之意。當知車匿得小乘道，不可濫為大乘中道門也。

As for the gate of neither emptiness nor existence: as the *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa* explains, when Channa's mind became pliable and soft, the *Nandikātyāyana Sūtra* was to be spoken for him, and only by leaving existence and leaving non-existence could he attain the path. This contemplation can also break simple and compound views and the eighty-one [grades of] thought; entering emptiness from the provisional, it brings about the non-arising of delusion, wisdom, cause, effect, and so forth; this is the purpose of breaking down the provisional through the gate of neither existence nor non-existence in the Tripiṭaka teaching. One should know that Channa attained the Hinayana path; it must not be confused with the Mahāyāna middle way gate.