六妙法門 1.49

1.49

Furthermore, when the bodhisattva contemplates the emptiness of the nature of breath, they do not apprehend the four truths, yet they also thoroughly penetrate the four truths. Why is this? As explained above, the mundane fruit is the truth of suffering; the mundane cause is the truth of the origin [of suffering]; the supramundane fruit is the truth of cessation; the supramundane cause is the truth of the path. Therefore, contemplating the characteristics of the breath, they do not see the four truths, yet are able to clearly distinguish the four truths, broadly expounding and distinguishing them for the sake of śrāvaka sentient beings.