四明尊者教行錄 2.64

2.64

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?