法智遺編觀心二百問 1.108

1.108

問：若先了等文為結前生後者，既云先了外色心一念無念，則結前已泯合畢，因何內體三千即空假中，生後之文又對泯合，是何道理？

Question: If passages such as 'first understanding' conclude what came before and introduce what follows: since it says 'first understanding external form and mind, a single thought is no-thought', then concluding what came before has already completed merging and unity. Why does the subsequent text—that the three thousand realms of the internal essence are precisely emptiness, provisionality, and the middle—correspond to merging and unity again? What kind of principle is this?