御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.31

2.31

Sūtra: "Subhūti, if a bodhisattva [...] then sees nothing at all." / Exposition: The third major section counteracts the causes and conditions of the suffering of lacking enjoyment and use. Because one gives while clinging to future fruit-phenomena, one's mind has marks; therefore, the fruit is limited, and enjoyment and use will be lacking. Namely, the mind's dwelling and attachment is the cause and condition of lacking enjoyment and use; the enjoyment and use that is lacked belongs to the dominant fruit of external resources and requisites. Relying on the explanation of this treatise, previously giving without abiding in phenomena was the perfection of giving; now, speaking of not relying on future fruits, in that treatise one's own body is called a "phenomenon." Here it speaks of lacking enjoyment and use; if one does not give without abiding, external resources will not be accomplished. If external resources are not accomplished, the lack of cause and fruit can be known by reversing the former; therefore, to counteract and eliminate this, this passage arises. From here onward, that treatise aims to sever the tenth doubt, on realizing tathatā or not realizing it. The treatise says: "If noble ones obtain their name through unconditioned tathatā, that tathatā exists at all times and in all places. How can an unabiding mind attain the Buddha's bodhi, while the Buddha's bodhi is not unabiding? If tathatā really exists at all times and in all places, why are there some who can attain it and some who cannot?" Here, the four characters "attain the Buddha's bodhi" apply to both what precedes and what follows. According to that new treatise, it says: "How is the Buddha-fruit realized only through an unabiding mind and not through an abiding mind?" Here there are two questions: the first asks about there being attainment and non-attainment; the second asks about an unabiding mind attaining while an abiding mind does not attain. It brings up a single verse in summary to answer both doubts, saying: