宗鏡錄 36.58

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36.58

The answer is: What arises and ceases is the mind of arising and ceasing. The sage is without mind; whence could arising and ceasing arise? Yet it is not that he is without mind; he is merely without a mind that minds. Nor is it that he does not respond; he merely responds without a response that responds. Therefore, as for responsive meeting, its trustworthiness is like the substance of the four seasons; straightforwardly taking vacuous non-existence as substance, it cannot be made to arise and cannot be made to cease.

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宗鏡錄 — Classical Chinese