宗鏡錄 89.41

89.41

答。雖無真實所見能見。而諸愚夫顛倒為有。除彼增上慢見。隨順世間。施設無過。若能隨此聖教修行。隨俗說為真佛弟子。世俗愚夫。隨自心變顛倒境相。而起見心。佛非其境。於彼無用。乃至謂佛世尊。在昔因位。為欲利樂一切有情。發起無邊功用願行。由此證得無分別慧。因此慧力。發起無量利樂有情作用。無盡。諸有情類。用佛願行所得妙慧為增上緣。自心變現。能順世間最勝生道。及順上緣又本願行。亦非顛倒。以能了知諸法實義。於一切法無所執著。能為無上妙果生因。雖復發心。起諸勝行。求無上果。利樂有情。然似幻師起諸幻事都無所執。故非顛倒。

Answer: Although there is no real object seen or subject seeing, all fools invert them into existence. To eliminate their views of overweening pride, complying with the world, provisional designations have no fault. If one can practice in accordance with this holy teaching, conventionally speaking, one is called a true disciple of the Buddha. Worldly fools, following the inverted objective characteristics transformed by their own minds, give rise to a seeing mind. The Buddha is not their object and has no function for them. As for saying that the Buddha, the World-Honoured One, in his past causal stage, in order to benefit and bring joy to all sentient beings, aroused boundless active vows and practices, through which he realized non-conceptual wisdom; and by the power of this wisdom, he aroused measureless functions of benefiting and bringing joy to sentient beings without end—sentient beings take the wondrous wisdom obtained through the Buddha's vows and practices as an empowering condition, and their own minds transform and appear so as to comply with the most supreme path of birth in the world and comply with the empowering condition. Furthermore, the original vows and practices are not inverted either, because he can comprehend the true meaning of all dharmas, has no attachment to any dharma, and can serve as the producing cause of the unsurpassed wondrous fruit. Although he arouses the aspiration, gives rise to supreme practices, seeks the unsurpassed fruit, and benefits and brings joy to sentient beings, like an illusionist conjuring illusions he has no attachment whatsoever, so it is not inverted.