十不二門指要鈔 2.10

2.10

Second, from "Existing in nature..." downward explains mutual inherence. Although the meaning of mutual accomplishment is clear, it is feared people might think cultivation exists only after being revealed and arisen, and that the virtues of nature differ slightly from what is accomplished by cultivation. Therefore, it now points to what is accomplished by cultivation as being already originally inherent in its entirety. As Mohe zhiguan broadly distinguishes the marks of the three thousand realms: although these are the two cultivations of adverse and aligned, they serve entirely to reveal what is inherent in nature; thus, the entirety of cultivation constitutes nature. Moreover, every single action, cause, effect, self, and other, although accomplished through cultivation, is entirely the manifestation of the three thousand virtues of nature; therefore it says, "Nature in its entirety constitutes cultivation." Furthermore, although cultivation arises entirely from nature, it never diminishes the virtues of nature in the least because nature is permanently unalterable; therefore it says, "Nature has no displacement." Although the entirety of cultivation constitutes nature, it has never for a moment lacked the virtues of cultivation because it is constantly transforming and creating; therefore it says, "Cultivation is ever distinct." If one knows that cultivation and nature each discuss the three thousand realms, then all meanings become clear. Hence Jingxi said that the various masters did not understand cultivation and nature because they did not understand it in this way.