宗鏡錄 36.34

36.34

Answer: Now in the Mirror of the Source, relying on the unconditioned samādhi, one contemplates the one mind of tathatā: thought-moment after thought-moment merging with the real, thought-moment after thought-moment consummate and complete. As explained in the Tiantai teachings: cultivating the unconditioned samādhi and contemplating the true reality of tathatā, one does not see conditioning cultivation making a buddha, nor does one see real cultivation making a buddha, nor does one see the union of both real and conditioning cultivations making a buddha, nor does one make a buddha apart from the two cultivations of the real and the conditioning. If there are not these four cultivations, there are not these four makings; this is the unconditioned samādhi. How could this be like the Northern Route of Xiangzhou, which explains that conditioning cultivation makes a buddha? Masters of the Great and Lesser Vehicles in the southern lands also mostly employ conditioning cultivation. Nor is it like the Southern Route of Xiangzhou, which employs real cultivation to make a buddha.