宗鏡錄 99.12

99.12

The Prajñāśāstra states: "Subhūti said: 'The Tathāgata has nothing spoken.' What is the meaning of this? There is not a single phenomenon that is spoken by the Tathāgata alone and not spoken by other buddhas. This means that what the Buddha speaks is merely passing on and recounting the teachings of ancient buddhas, not his own fabrication." Explanation: Therefore we know that this Dharma has already been spoken by past buddhas, is presently spoken by the present Buddha, and will be spoken by future buddhas. Hence, when one buddha speaks, the buddhas of the ten directions attest to it together. Up to: wisdom, lands, real and conventional dharmas, and the nature of ordinary beings and sages are all identical and without duality. Because they share only the one mind, there is ultimately no different purport. As the 'Buddha's Inconceivable' chapter of the Avataṃsakasūtra states: 'Son of the Buddha, the buddhas, the world-honoured ones, have ten kinds of dharmas of unhindered action without duality. What are the ten? Namely: all buddhas are completely able to skillfully speak words of prophecy, definitely without duality. All buddhas are completely able to accord with the thoughts of sentient beings' minds and fulfill their wishes, definitely without duality. All buddhas are completely able to presently awaken to all phenomena and expound their meaning, definitely without duality. All buddhas are completely able to be fully endowed with the wisdom of the buddhas of past, future, and present times, definitely without duality. All buddhas completely know that all kṣaṇas of the three times are just a single kṣaṇa, definitely without duality. All buddhas completely know that all buddha-lands of the three times enter into a single buddha-land, definitely without duality. All buddhas completely know that all the words of the buddhas of the three times are just a single buddha-word, definitely without duality. All buddhas completely know that all the buddhas of the three times and all the sentient beings they transform are equal in substance and nature, definitely without duality. All buddhas completely know that worldly phenomena and the buddhas' phenomena are without difference in nature, definitely without duality. All buddhas completely know that all the roots of good of all the buddhas of the three times are the same single root of good, definitely without duality. These are the ten.' Furthermore, the Xinxin ming states: 'If you want immediate accord, / speak only of "not two."' When firm faith can be formed and subtle doubts are severed forever, then the text of the Mirror of the Source will transmit its radiance without decay.