宗鏡錄 74.4

74.4

Question: The two emptinesses of person and dharmas are the wondrous principle of the one mind; why then speak of being shifted by the four characteristics and the continuation of the two kinds of death? Moreover, among the four characteristics: as for the characteristic of arising, inside and outside it has no origin, and upon investigation it cannot be apprehended; as for the characteristic of abiding, thought by thought does not abide; as for the characteristic of change, although it seems to shift, its substance is originally changeless; as for the characteristic of cessation, dharmas are originally not so, and now there is also no cessation.