摩訶止觀 2.56

2.56

Contemplating that one's own four movements have such faults, and contemplating that others' four movements are also like this, one immediately gives rise to loving-kindness and compassion and practices the six perfections. Why is this? The nature and marks of the dusts of the six receptions are like this; for immeasurable eons the foolish and ignorant have held fast and clung to them, unable to relinquish them, and even when relinquishing, unable to forget them. Now one contemplates that dust is not dust, having no reception toward dust; contemplates that faculties are not faculties, having no attachment to oneself; contemplates that a person is unobtainable, and there is also no receiver. These three matters being entirely empty is called dāna-pāramitā. The Diamond Prajñā says: 'If one gives while abiding in forms, sounds, scents, tastes, touch, or phenomena, this is called giving with abiding in marks. It is like a person entering darkness, seeing nothing. Giving without abiding in sounds or tastes is markless giving. It is like a person with eyes, when the sun shines brightly, seeing various colors.' Merely saying 'not seeing marks' is brief and still difficult to understand. Now, one does not see form as possessing marks, lacking marks, both possessing and lacking marks, or neither possessing nor lacking marks; if one is attached to marks everywhere, one leads them to emerge so that they do not give rise to the sixty-two views—only this is called the 'markless dāna' that reaches the other shore. All phenomena tend toward dāna, accomplishing the Mahāyāna; these are the four movements of a bodhisattva.