法界次第初門 2.199

2.199

Second, the liberation gate of signlessness. What is called the liberation gate of signlessness? Contemplating the signs of male and female, signs of unity and difference, and so forth: seeking reality among these signs, none can be found, hence they are signless. Why is that? If dharmas are empty due to lack of self and what belongs to a self, being empty, there are no dharmas of male or female, unity or difference, and so forth. Names are distinct within self and what belongs to a self; therefore, signs such as male and female, unity and difference, are genuinely ungraspable. Being able to penetrate in this way is the liberation gate of signlessness. This liberation takes four aspects as its objects, namely cessation, pacification, excellence, and escape.