宗鏡錄 36.36

36.36

Answer: The Way is free of contention; how could contention be like water and fire? Now it is explained that employing samādhi to cultivate the supreme truth of the middle way opens up avidyā and reveals the dharmatā, forgets the real and the conditioning, and departs from contentious disputation. When the dharma of verbal expression is extinguished, immeasurable sins are removed, the pure citta is unified, and if the water is clear, the jewel of buddha-nature naturally appears. Because one sees the buddha-nature, one immediately abides in the great nirvāṇa.