釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 8.19

8.19

Next is contemplating the mind as suchness. The practitioner should know that because the mind exists, there are bodily form, coming and going, moving and turning. If this mind did not exist, who would differentiate form, and on what would form arise? Attentively contemplating this mind, one sees that it exists dependent on conditions, rapidly arising and ceasing, with no place of abiding seen and no marks or appearance; it exists merely as a name, and that name is also empty; this is penetrating the suchness of the mind. If the practitioner finds no distinction among the three natures, this is called “mind as suchness.”