四明尊者教行錄 2.64

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十七問：若云惑性相待非關智斷行消義者，此則修性理殊、智斷體別。大師那云：始則起自了因，終則菩提大智。始則起自緣因，終則涅槃斷德。如何特陳惑性相待名理消毒，非關約行智斷義耶？性德了因非智體耶？性德緣因非斷體耶？

Question 17: If you say that delusion and nature being mutually relative does not concern the eradication of practice through wisdom and eradication, then cultivation and nature would have different principles, and wisdom and eradication would have distinct entities. Why did the Great Master say: 'Beginning by arising from the understanding cause, it ends in the great wisdom of bodhi; beginning by arising from the conditioning cause, it ends in the virtue of eradication of nirvāṇa'? Why do you specially set forth that delusion and nature being mutually relative is called theoretical poison-eradication, unconcerned with the meaning of wisdom and eradication in terms of practice? Is not the understanding cause of inherent virtue the entity of wisdom? Is not the conditioning cause of inherent virtue the entity of eradication?