宗鏡錄 97.54

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Master Rong of Niutou's Treatise on the Cessation of Contemplation asks: "What is citta?" Answer: "What is observed by the six sense faculties are all entirely citta." Question: "How is the citta?" Answer: "The citta is quiescent and extinguished." Question: "What is the substance?" Answer: "Citta is the substance." Question: "What is the source?" Answer: "Citta is the source." Question: "What is the root?" Answer: "Citta is the root." Question: "How is it that concentration and wisdom travel together?" Answer: "The quiescence and extinction of the citta-nature is concentration; constantly understanding quiescence and extinction is wisdom." Question: "What is cognition?" Answer: "Understanding arising [in relation to] objects is cognition." "What is an object?" Answer: "One's own citta-nature is the object." Question: "What is unfolding?" Answer: "Illuminating function is unfolding." "What is folding up?" Answer: "The citta being quiescent and extinguished, without coming or going, is folding up. When unfolded, it universally roams the dharmadhātu; when folded up, the traces of concentration are difficult to find." Question: "What is the dharmadhātu?" Answer: "That whose borders and surfaces cannot be found is named the dharmadhātu."