宗鏡錄 83.22

83.22

問。若云心同境空。了不可得者。如今介爾心起。果報非虛。一念善心。遠階佛果。一念惡想。長劫受殃。豈同外色前塵。性是無記。依心假有。體畢竟無。若緣念心。即應是有。

Question: If you say that mind, like objects, is empty and utterly ungraspable, yet now when even the slightest thought arises in the mind, karmic retribution is not in vain: a single moment of wholesome mind remotely ascends to the fruit of Buddhahood, while a single moment of evil thought brings suffering for long kalpas. How could it be identical to external form and sensory dust, whose nature is neutral (avyākṛta), conventionally existent reliant on mind, and ultimately devoid of substance? If it is the mind of conditioning thoughts, then it must be existent.