宗鏡錄 66.25

66.25

Question: 'Some say that the existence of a self arises from delusion regarding a semblance and is not a real existent. Why then do we not mistake another for oneself? Now, since we take oneself as oneself and cannot take it as another, and take another as another and cannot take it as oneself, know therefore that self and other are real existents and do not arise from conceptualization. Furthermore, if it is merely a deluded mind and not a real existent, why do we not in delusion see water as fire or see fire as water? Therefore, know that water and fire are real existents and do not arise from delusion.'