宗鏡錄 40.13.5

40.13.5

If one only practices the source of according with quantity, Mañjuśrī's correct wisdom cannot be consummate. Only by possessing these two gates is the Mirror of the Source clarified. Therefore Sudhana in a single lifetime was able to accomplish the practice of many kalpas. An ancient commentary states: "Since Sudhana, by the power of his good friend the Ṛṣi Bhīmottara, in the space of an instant saw in some buddhas' lands the passing of unspeakably unspeakable dust-motes of buddha-realms in kalpas, practicing without weariness, how could a single lifetime not pass through many kalpas? The power of a ṛṣi is sovereign over long and short. Thus it is like Wang Zhi of the secular world encountering the immortals' chess game, which caused his axe handle to rot; after three years he still thought it was only the time of a meal. Since long can be made short, short can also be made long. Like King Mu of Zhou following the illusionist: although many years passed, it was actually only an instant. Therefore one should not determine the principle based on long or short time, or wide or narrow space." Therefore we know that transforming in accordance with the mind, the long and short are not fixed. When the mind is long, it is long; when the mind is short, it is short. Length and brevity are mind, not the divisions of time. All the myriad dharmas are accomplished by the mind; calculating apart from the mind, one loses the ancestral source.