宗鏡錄 97.39

97.39

Answer: Seeing that all dharmas exist—existence of itself does not exist; one's own mind calculates it as existing. Seeing that all dharmas do not exist—non-existence of itself is not non-existent; one's own mind calculates it as non-existent. And so forth, all dharmas are also like this: they are all calculated by one's own mind as existing or calculated by one's own mind as non-existent. Furthermore, if a person commits all offenses, yet sees for himself his own Dharma King, he attains liberation immediately. If one attains understanding through phenomena, one's vigor is robust; if one sees the Dharma within phenomena, then at all times and in all places one does not lose mindfulness. If one understands through written words, one's vigor is weak. Being identical with phenomena is being identical with the Dharma—even through your manifold movements, leaping, stumbling, and falling, you never exit the dharmadhātu, nor do you enter the dharmadhātu. If one takes a realm to enter a realm, that is a foolish person. Whatever one does, it never ultimately exits the mind of the dharmadhātu. Why? Because the substance of the mind is the dharmadhātu."