宗鏡錄 12.7

12.7

答。以一切法。緣生無性故。不得凡夫法。不得聖人法。以無性緣生故。若真若俗。不相混濫。如云。一切即一皆同無性。一即一切。因果歷然。雖即歷然。不失無性之理。雖即無性。不壞緣生之道。然又雖但了一心。而於諸法。一一了知。分明無惑。如華嚴經云。菩薩摩訶薩。知一切法。皆同一性。所謂無性。無種種性。無無量性。無可算數性。無可稱量性。無色無相。若一若多。皆不可得。而決定了知。此是諸佛法。此是若薩法。此是獨覺法。此是聲聞法。此是凡夫法。此是善法。此是不善法。此是世間法。此是出世間法。此是過失法。此是無過失法。此是有漏法。此是無漏法。乃至此是有為法。此是無為法。是為第七如實住。

Answer: Because all dharmas are dependently arisen and without nature, the dharma of an ordinary person cannot be apprehended, and the dharma of a sage cannot be apprehended. Because they are without nature and dependently arisen, the true and the conventional are not conflated. As it is said: all is the one, identical in having no nature; the one is all, causes and effects distinct. Although they are distinct, they do not lose the principle of non-nature; although they are without nature, they do not destroy the way of dependent origination. Furthermore, although one merely comprehends the one mind, one understands each and every dharma distinctly without delusion. As the Avataṃsakasūtra says: 'The bodhisattva mahāsattva knows that all dharmas are of the same nature, namely, without nature, without various natures, without immeasurable natures, without countable natures, without weighable natures, without form and without characteristics; whether one or many, none can be apprehended. Yet he definitively understands: this is the dharma of the buddhas, this is the dharma of bodhisattvas, this is the dharma of pratyekabuddhas, this is the dharma of śrāvakas, this is the dharma of ordinary persons, this is good dharma, this is unwholesome dharma, this is worldly dharma, this is transworldly dharma, this is faulty dharma, this is faultless dharma, this is contaminated dharma, this is uncontaminated dharma, up to this is conditioned dharma, this is unconditioned dharma. This is the seventh, the True Abiding.'