少室六門 1.100

1.100

Question: What is what appears to one's own mind? Answer: Seeing all dharmas as existent—existence is not inherently existent; one's own mind reckons it as existent. Seeing all dharmas as non-existent—non-existence is not inherently non-existent; one's own mind reckons it as non-existent. And so on for all dharmas; all are one's own mind reckoning them as existent and one's own mind reckoning them as non-existent. Furthermore, if a person commits all offenses, but perceives their own Dharma King, they immediately attain vimokṣa. If one attains understanding through active affairs, one's vitality is robust; if one sees the Dharma within affairs, one does not lose mindfulness anywhere. If one understands through written words, one's vitality is weak. Identifying affairs as Dharma is profound. From your various movements and actions, leaping and stumbling, none ever departs from the dharmadhātu, nor does it enter the dharmadhātu. If one uses the dharmadhātu to enter the dharmadhātu, that is a fool. In whatever one does, it never departs from the mind of the dharmadhātu. Why? Because the mind-essence is the dharmadhātu.