摩訶止觀 3.145
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4. Explaining attainment and loss: "Loss" means the conceivable; "attainment" means the inconceivable. If one says that wisdom arises from the mind and spontaneously illumines the realm—like a torch illuminating an object, whether illuminated or not yet illuminated, this object originally exists; whether contemplated or not contemplated, the realm is naturally so of itself, and the truth and wisdom do not depend on each other. If one says that wisdom is not wisdom of itself, but is wisdom because of the realm; and the realm is not a realm of itself, but is a realm because of wisdom—like the relative dependence of long and short—this is existing through mutual dependence. If one says that the realm is not a realm of itself, nor is it a realm because of wisdom, but is a realm through the condition of both realm and wisdom; and wisdom is likewise—this gets its name from conjunction. If one says that it is not like the above three kinds at all, but is simply naturally so of itself, then this is causeless realm and wisdom. These four understandings all have faults. Why is this? If there is the fourfold grasping, then there is reliance; with reliance there is right and wrong; with right and wrong there is attachment and aversion; attachment and aversion produce all afflictions; because afflictions are produced, conceptual proliferation and dispute are produced; because dispute is produced, actions of body, speech, and mind are generated; because actions are produced, one transmigrates in the ocean of suffering with no time of liberation.
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