宗鏡錄 12.7

12.7

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.'