法智遺編觀心二百問 1.87

1.87

問：仁立鑽火之喻，意執於火唯是所鑽所出，而不知出已燒木，復是能燒。觀陰顯理，本欲滅陰，理顯陰滅，理非能滅耶？

Question: You, benevolence, establish the analogy of drilling for fire, obstinately holding that fire is exclusively that which is drilled and that which emerges, unaware that once it emerges, it burns the wood and is in turn that which can burn. Contemplating the skandhas reveals principle, originally desiring to eradicate the skandhas; when principle is revealed, the skandhas are eradicated—is principle not that which can eradicate?