宗鏡錄 69.2

69.2

夫覺王隨順世法曲徇機宜。欲顯無相之門。先明有相之理。因方便而開真實。假有作而證無生。非稱本懷。但施密意。於四俗諦中。立第二隨事差別諦。說三科法門。謂蘊處界等。今欲會有歸空。應當先立後破。須知窟穴。方可傾巢。只如五蘊初科。四大元始。以何為義。

Now, the King of Awakening accords with worldly dharmas and complies with capacities and inclinations. Desiring to reveal the gate of signlessness, he first clarified the principle of having signs. Relying on expedients, he opened the real; borrowing conditioned action, he verified the unborn. This was not the expression of his fundamental intent, but merely the deployment of his hidden intention. Among the four conventional truths, he established the second, the truth of differences according to facts, expounding the teaching of the three categories, namely the skandhas, āyatanas, and dhātus. Now, desiring to integrate existence into emptiness, one should first establish and later refute: one must know the cave before the nest can be overturned. Just as with the first category of the five skandhas, the origin of the four great elements, what is their meaning?