宗鏡錄 69.2

69.2

Now, the King of Awakening accords with worldly dharmas and complies with capacities and inclinations. Desiring to reveal the gate of signlessness, he first clarified the principle of having signs. Relying on expedients, he opened the real; borrowing conditioned action, he verified the unborn. This was not the expression of his fundamental intent, but merely the deployment of his hidden intention. Among the four conventional truths, he established the second, the truth of differences according to facts, expounding the teaching of the three categories, namely the skandhas, āyatanas, and dhātus. Now, desiring to integrate existence into emptiness, one should first establish and later refute: one must know the cave before the nest can be overturned. Just as with the first category of the five skandhas, the origin of the four great elements, what is their meaning?