宗鏡錄 78.29

78.29

He replied: ‘All dharmas fundamentally do not say of themselves that they are right or wrong, defiled or pure, nor do they have a mind to bind people. It is only that people themselves falsely conceptualize and attach, forming several kinds of understanding, giving rise to several kinds of views, and generating several kinds of fear and love. If one only understands that dharmas do not arise of themselves, but all exist through one's own inverted grasping of characteristics, and knows that mind and objects fundamentally never reach each other, there is liberation right where one is. Each and every dharma and each and every mind is quiescent extinction right where it is, and right where it is, it is the place of enlightenment. Furthermore, the inherently existing nature cannot be named. Fundamentally it is neither ordinary nor holy, neither foolish nor wise, neither defiled nor pure, neither empty nor existent, neither good nor evil. When concordant with defiled dharmas, it is called the realm of sentient beings; when concordant with pure dharmas, it is called humans, gods, and the two vehicles. If the mind of defilement and purity is exhausted, not dwelling in bondage or liberation, without any mental measures of conditioned, unconditioned, bound, or liberated, then dwelling in saṃsāra, the mind is autonomous. Ultimately, it does not coalesce with the illusory dusts, afflictions, aggregates, realms, saṃsāra, and sense-bases. Remotely free of abiding, unconstrained by anything, its going and coming are unobstructed, traversing saṃsāra just like passing through an open door.’