宗鏡錄 9.7

9.7

Answer: It is simply that the wondrous is called incomparable; incomparable is an alternative name for wondrous, just as worldly people speak of someone as being "incomparably capable." Furthermore, the wondrous is that which can cut off [the coarse], and the coarse is that which is cut off; because this wondrous [state] has the efficacy of cutting off the coarse, "incomparable" is cited to name the wondrous. This "incomparable" does not mean extinction; it takes inexhaustibility as incomparable. As the Huanyuan guan states: "A single particle of dust produces inexhaustibility ubiquitously." Within a single particle of dust, there is both principle and phenomena, both person and dharma, both dependent and primary [reward], both defiled and pure, both cause and effect, both identity and difference, both that and this, both one and many, both broad and narrow, both sentient and non-sentient, both the three bodies and the ten bodies. Why is this? Because principle and phenomena are unimpeded, and dharmas are naturally so; because the ten bodies function reciprocally with sovereign application, this is exclusively the realm of Universal Eye. Among the phenomena mentioned above, each mutually accommodates and absorbs the other, each possessing a multiply inexhaustible realm. A sūtra verse says: / "The inexhaustible ocean of all dharma-gates / Together assemble within the bodhimaṇḍa of a single dharma. / In this way, they are successively and reciprocally established; / Only the person without impediment can awaken to this."