十不二門指要鈔 2.11

2.11

Question: "Others say that older editions read 'relying on knowing is called cultivation' (jie zhi yue xiu), and use the numinous knowing of the fundamental nature to interpret the word 'knowing' (zhi). If one says 'relying on wisdom gives rise to cultivation' (jie zhi qi xiu), this is merely because a copyist wrote 'yue' (曰) too close to 'zhi' (知), and later people mistook it for the character 'wisdom' (zhi 智); since that did not form a complete sentence, and seeing the phrase 'give rise to cultivation' (qi xiu) in the following line, they arbitrarily added the character 'give rise' (qi 起). How should this be resolved?"