少室六門 1.102

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問。諸法既空。阿誰修道。答。有阿誰。須修道。若無阿誰。即不須修道。阿誰者亦我也。若無我者。逢物不生是非。是者我自是。而物非是也。非者我自非。而物非非也。即心無心。是為通達佛道。即物不起見。名為達道。逢物直達知其本源。此人慧眼開。智者任物不任己。即無取捨違順。愚者任己不任物。即有取捨違順。不見一物。名為見道。不行一物。名為行道。即一切處無處。即作處無作法。即是見佛。若見相時。即一切處見鬼。取相故墮地獄。觀法故得解脫。若見憶相分別。即受鑊湯爐炭等事。現見生死相。若見法界性。即涅槃性。無憶想分別。即是法界性。心是非色故非有。用而不廢故非無。用而常空故非有。空而常用故非無。即說頌曰。

Question: Since all dharmas are empty, who cultivates the Way? Answer: If there is a 'who', that one must cultivate the Way. If there is no 'who', then there is no need to cultivate the Way. The 'who' is also the self. If there is no self, encountering objects, right and wrong will not arise. 'Right' is the self considering itself right, while the object is not right; 'wrong' is the self considering itself wrong, while the object is not wrong. The mind being without mind is to penetrate the Buddha's Way. Encountering objects without giving rise to views is called penetrating the Way. Encountering objects and directly penetrating to their root source, this person's wisdom eye opens. The wise rely on objects and not on the self; hence they have no grasping, rejecting, opposition, or accord. The foolish rely on the self and not on objects; hence they have grasping, rejecting, opposition, and accord. Not seeing a single thing is called seeing the Way; not practicing a single thing is called practicing the Way. Where every place is no place, where the place of action is without conditioned dharmas, that is seeing the Buddha. If one sees marks, one sees ghosts everywhere; grasping at marks, one falls into hell. Contemplating the Dharma, one attains vimokṣa. If one perceives, remembers marks, and discriminates, one undergoes cauldrons of boiling water, burning coals, and the like, directly seeing marks of saṃsāra. If one sees the dharmadhātu-nature, that is nirvāṇa-nature. Free of memory, thought, and discrimination, that is the dharmadhātu-nature. Mind is not rūpa, hence it is not existent; functioning without cease, it is not non-existent. Functioning yet constantly empty, it is not existent; empty yet constantly functioning, it is not non-existent. Then a verse is spoken: