釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 6.165

6.165

答曰：色是眼見耳聞，麁事能令空，何況不可見，無有對，不覺苦樂而不空耶？復次，色分別乃至微塵皆散滅歸空，是心心數法在日月時節乃至一念中不可得，是名真實四無色空義。菩薩如是知已，亦能分別種種諸相，以大悲方便為一切眾生故，行而不著。以此功德迴向菩提，具一切佛法，普施眾生，即是行菩薩道也。

Answer: Form is seen by the eye and heard by the ear; if coarse matters can be rendered empty, how much more so that which is invisible, non-resistant, and insensible to suffering and bliss—how could it not be empty? Furthermore, when form is analyzed down to minute particles, they all disperse, perish, and return to emptiness; these minds and mental factors cannot be apprehended in months, days, seasons, or even in a single thought-moment: this is called the true meaning of emptiness in the four formless [absorptions]. Having understood this, a bodhisattva is also able to distinguish the various characteristics, and out of great compassion and expedient means, for the sake of all sentient beings, practices without attachment. Dedicating this merit toward bodhi, endowing all Buddha-dharmas, and universally bestowing them on sentient beings—this is precisely practicing the bodhisattva path.