宗鏡錄 14.3.6

14.3.6

Mahāsattva Fu's verse says: 'Returning to the source, / Why seek through stages? / The Dharma-nature has no before and after; / In a single thought, in a single moment, it is cultivated.' / Another verse says: 'On the worldly ground, one cultivates the noble Way; / On the fruit ground, one practices worldly causes. / Constantly walking, there is nothing trodden upon; / Constantly crossing over people who cannot be crossed over.' / Great Master Zhenjue's song says: 'Snow Mountain's rich pasture is free from impurity; / It yields pure ghee, which I constantly take. / One nature completely penetrates all natures; / One phenomenon comprehensively contains all phenomena. / One moon universally appears in all waters; / All waters' moons are subsumed in the one moon. / The dharmakāya of the Buddhas enters my nature; / My nature joins together in union with the Tathāgata. / One ground is fully endowed with all grounds; / It is not form, not citta, not karmic activity. / In the snap of a finger, eighty thousand gates are perfectly accomplished; / In a kṣaṇa, the karma of Avīci is extinguished. / All numerical propositions and non-numerical propositions— / What do they have to do with my spiritual awakening?' / The Ocean of Meanings in a Hundred Gates says: 'As for arousing bodhi: now one completely realizes the principle of naturelessness in all sentient beings and in specks of dust and hair-tips, so as to accomplish the Buddha's bodhi-wisdom. Therefore, within the Buddha's bodhi-body, one sees all sentient beings attaining equal, right awakening. Furthermore, since sentient beings, specks of dust, hair-tips, and so forth are entirely constituted as sentient beings by the principle of the Buddha's bodhi, within the bodhi of sentient beings one sees the Buddha cultivating bodhi-practices. Therefore, the Buddha is the Buddha of sentient beings, and sentient beings are the sentient beings of the Buddha. Even if there are unfolding and folding, in the end there is no distinction. One who sees thus is said to have the bodhicitta, arousing great compassion of identical substance to teach and transform sentient beings.'