宗鏡錄 23.39

23.39

答。劫國名號。乃是出世化門之中現前別記。欲知真記者。淨名經云。一切眾生亦如也。一切法亦如也。華嚴經頌云。顯佛自在力。如說圓滿經。無量諸眾生。悉受菩提記。又頌云。一一心念中。普觀一切法。安住真如地。了達諸法海。又頌云。一一微塵中。能證一切法。如是無所礙。周行十方國。斯則人法心境。悉記成佛。以一念具足。一塵不虧。念念證真。塵塵合體。同居常寂光土。俱號毘盧遮那。終無異土別身。聖強凡劣。與三世佛一時成道。前後情消。共十類生同日涅槃始終見絕。免起有情無情之妄解。不生心內心外之邪思。可謂上無所求。下無可化。冥真履實。得本歸宗。俱登一際解脫之門。盡受平等菩提之記。

Answer: Kalpas, lands, and names are distinct predictions manifested within the world-transcending conversion gates. If you wish to know the true prediction, the Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra says: 'All sentient beings are likewise tathatā; all phenomena are likewise tathatā.' A verse in the Avataṃsakasūtra says: 'Manifesting the Buddha's sovereign power, / Just as expounded in the perfect sūtra, / Immeasurable sentient beings / All receive the prediction of bodhi.' Another verse says: 'In each and every thought of the mind, / Universally contemplating all phenomena, / Abiding securely in the ground of tathatā, / Fully comprehending the ocean of all phenomena.' Another verse says: 'Within each and every minute dust mote, / One is able to realize all phenomena; / Thus unobstructed, / One travels universally throughout the lands of the ten directions.' This shows that persons and phenomena, mind and objects, are all predicted to attain Buddhahood. Because one thought is complete and one dust mote lacks nothing, thought after thought realizes reality, and dust mote after dust mote accords with the substance. Dwelling together in the Land of Eternally Quiescent Light, all are named Vairocana. There are ultimately no different lands or separate bodies, nor the holy being superior and the ordinary inferior. Attaining the path at the same time as the Buddhas of the three periods, sentiments of earlier and later vanish. Entering nirvāṇa on the same day as the ten categories of living beings, views of beginning and end are severed. One is spared from giving rise to the deluded understanding of sentient and insentient, and from producing deviant thoughts of inside the mind and outside the mind. It can be said that above there is nothing to seek, and below there is no one to convert. Merging with the true and treading upon the real, one obtains the root and returns to the source, together ascending the gate of liberation of single equality and completely receiving the prediction of equal bodhi.