釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 3.36

3.36

One should know that all dharmas, such as the aggregates and bases, do not exist from internal causes, nor from external conditions, nor from the combination of causes and conditions, nor without causes and conditions. If they do not exist, they are empty. If within non-existent emptiness one conceives existence, one should know that this is merely the false conception of existence through ignorance and inversion. If one thoroughly knows that all dharmas conceived through inversion are false and deceptive, like dreams or phantoms, having only names, while the dharmas of names are also unobtainable, then the path of speech is severed, the place of mental activity ceases, and all is ultimately empty and tranquil, like empty space. If the practitioner realizes that all dharmas are like empty space, there is no grasping and no discarding, no reliance and no leaning, no abiding and no clinging. If the mind is free of grasping and discarding, reliance and leaning, abiding and clinging, then all false thinking, inversions, and karmic actions of saṃsāra completely cease: unconditioned and without desire, without ideation and without practice, without fabrication and without action, without showing and without speaking, without dispute and without contention, obliterated in purity, like great nirvāṇa—this is called true stopping. This is stopping without any place to stop; the stopping of non-stopping is called 'stopping through realizing reality'. Therefore, a scriptural verse says: