弘明集 5.23

5.23

答曰。宜有斯問然後理可盡也。所謂形神不相資。則其異本耳。既以為生。生生之內各周其用。苟用斯生以成罪福。神豈自妙其照不為此形之用耶。若其然也。則有意於賢愚非忘照而玄會。順理玄會順理盡形。化神宅形。子不疑於其始彼此一理而性於其終耶。

I answered: 'It is appropriate that there should be this question; only then can principle be exhausted. What is meant by corporeal form and spirit not relying on each other refers to their different origins. Once they constitute life, within the ongoing generation of life each fulfills its function. If one uses this life to produce sin and merit, how could the spirit keep its illumination marvelously to itself without serving as the function for this corporeal form? If it were so, it would possess intentionality regarding worthiness and foolishness, rather than forgetting illumination and profoundly uniting. According with principle, it profoundly unites; according with principle, it exhausts the corporeal form. Transforming, the spirit lodges in corporeal form. Do you not doubt that at the beginning both are of one principle, yet assign fixed natures to them at the end?'