宗鏡錄 37.27

37.27

Answer: This is an inconceivable realm, not the same as emotional grasping. Whether preserved or extinguished, whether unified or mutually transcended, their expansion and contraction do not depart from the one mind. If preserved, it does not establish phenomena outside the citta; it is preserving phenomena that are entirely principle. If extinguished, it does not destroy principle that is entirely phenomena; it is extinguishing views outside substance. Thus, without obstructing the citta-mirror, they are of one taste; without destroying the single taste, there are citta and realm. Therefore the Avataṃsaka Sūtra verse says: / 'The Tathāgata's extremely profound realm / Has a measure equal to empty space. / All sentient beings enter it, / Yet in reality there is nothing entered.'