四明尊者教行錄 3.94

3.94

答：但約苦集理具，則知道滅空虛。以理不可除故，功無所作。從本迷故，全菩提涅槃為煩惱生死；於今悟故，全煩惱生死為菩提涅槃。四不相傾，一一絕待，皆由四諦元是一理故也。《大經玄義》云：非苦、非苦因、非苦盡、非苦對，而是一實等。豈一實理而有作為取？

Answer: Merely in terms of suffering and accumulation being inherently included in principle, one knows that extinction and the path are empty and unsubstantial. Because principle cannot be eliminated, effort has nothing to construct. Because from the beginning there was delusion, bodhi and nirvāṇa were entirely defilement and birth-and-death; now, because of awakening, defilement and birth-and-death are entirely bodhi and nirvāṇa. The four do not subvert one another, each is absolute; this is all because the four truths are originally one principle. The Dajing xuanyi says: 'It is neither suffering, nor the cause of suffering, nor the end of suffering, nor the antidote to suffering, but rather the One Reality,' and so forth. How could the principle of the One Reality involve intentional activity or grasping?