宗鏡錄 92.15

92.15

Answer: If one speaks of the provisional and real of self-practice in accordance with one's own intention, then one only speaks of the gate of the one mind. If it is the provisional and real of transforming others in accordance with the intention of others, one broadly opens the eighty thousand dharmas. Now we only speak of the provisional and real of self-practice, where the branches and roots return to the source. The Tiantai teachings say: 'If within the Buddha's mind the ten realms and ten thusnesses contemplated are all without superior characteristics, there is only the single Buddha-dharmadhātu, just as the sea gathers the myriad streams and a thousand carriages share a single rut: this is the provisional and real of self-practice. If it accords with the intentions of others, then there are the ten thusnesses of the nine realms: this is the provisional and real of transforming others.' In accordance with others, there is opening; in accordance with oneself, there is combining. Comprehensively illuminating both horizontally and vertically, opening and combining are unobstructed. Although opening into the immeasurable, the immeasurable is one; although combining into the one, the one is immeasurable. Although immeasurable and one, it is neither one nor immeasurable; although neither one nor immeasurable, it is both one and immeasurable.