宗鏡錄 45.18

45.18

Answer: The grand purport of the patriarchs and Buddhas speaks only of the two emptinesses, realizing and meeting the original nature of the one mind's tathatā. Therefore the Treatise on the Hundred Dharmas says: 'As the World-Honoured One said: "All phenomena are without self." What are all phenomena? They are what are called the mental dharmas. What are the two non-selves? They are the so-called non-self of persons and non-self of phenomena.' If all sentient beings merely attain the emptiness of both persons and phenomena and know that all phenomena are the intrinsic nature of the citta itself, what other different phenomena would there be to expound? Take the Yogācārabhūmiśāstra: it was expounded by Maitreya at the request of Bodhisattva Asaṅga. The treatise says: 'Bodhisattva Asaṅga ascended to the first bhūmi, realized the concentration of the light of the Dharma, obtained great supernormal powers, served the Great Compassionate Honoured One, and requested him to speak this treatise. There is no principle it does not exhaust, no phenomenon it does not fully detail, no passage it does not explain, no meaning it does not interpret, no doubt it does not dispel, no attachment it does not shatter, no practice it does not cultivate, and no fruit it does not realize. It is precisely for bodhisattvas, to cause them to be skillful regarding the objects, practices, and fruits of the various yānas, diligently cultivate great practice, realize great bodhi, and constantly teach sentient beings without inversion.' It even says that in the practice and contemplation of yoga, there is not the slightest phenomenon; it wishes to cause them to realize and attain it, and wishes for direct contemplation, or says that the ultimately pure tathatā is named the supreme culmination among the principles of yoga, because all merits correspond together with it.