遊心安樂道 1.36

1.36

As for what is called "generating the mind in conformity with principle": one faithfully understands that all dharmas are like illusions and dreams, neither existent nor non-existent, beyond words and cut off from conceptual thought. Relying on this faithful understanding, one generates the vast mind: although one does not see afflictions or wholesome dharmas as existent, one does not repudiate what is to be cut off and what is to be cultivated; therefore, although one vows to cut off and cultivate them all, one does not violate the wishless samādhi. Although one vows to deliver all immeasurable sentient beings, one does not maintain the existence of a deliverer or the delivered; thus, one is able to conform to emptiness and signlessness. As a sūtra says: "Having thus delivered immeasurable sentient beings, in reality no sentient being has attained deliverance," and so on at length. Therefore, generating the mind in this manner is inconceivable. This explains the characteristics of generating the mind in conformity with principle.