法界次第初門 1.307

1.307

The attainment of the base of nothingness. The Mahāsaṃnipāta-sūtra states: "If there is a bhikṣu who contemplates the three times as empty, and knows that all conditioned factors both arise and cease, and that the base of space and the base of consciousness both arise and cease—having engaged in this contemplation, he sequentially contemplates consciousness: 'Now is this consciousness of mine also consciousness, or non-consciousness? If it is non-consciousness, it is called the quiescent self; why should I seek to sever this consciousness?' This is called obtaining the attainment of the base of nothingness."