宗鏡錄 10.9

10.9

答。約依他似法。此是真心隨熏所作。無自體故。不異真如。故論云。以一切法。即真實性故。今此約遍計所執實性。故無可現也。

Answer: [This is spoken] from the perspective of the apparent phenomena of the dependent nature (paratantra). These are produced by the true mind following perfuming; because they lack self-substance, they are not different from tathatā. Therefore the treatise states: 'Because all phenomena are identical with the real nature.' Here, however, [the first mirror] is discussed in terms of the real nature imagined by ubiquitous conceptualisation (parikalpita), and therefore there is nothing that can be manifested.