御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.98

2.98

Sūtra: “If a bodhisattva penetrates [...] is truly a bodhisattva.”
Exposition: Fourth, concluding with the true bodhisattva. Not saying “I am able” is penetrating the emptiness of persons, and having no land to adorn is penetrating the emptiness of phenomena; such a one is spoken of by the Tathāgata as truly a bodhisattva. This conversely reveals that one who possesses clinging and fails to penetrate the two emptinesses is not a true bodhisattva. Following other versions of the sūtra, there are the two selflessnesses and the two bodhisattvas. According to the commentary's explanation: first is the selflessness of persons, and second is the selflessness of phenomena. It is precisely through the two selflessnesses that the two bodhisattvas are revealed. Here it merely mentions them generally. That commentary says: "To give rise to a conception is an inversion, and such a one is not a bodhisattva." What kind of conception arisen is called a bodhisattva? It precisely refers to this passage. Furthermore, the verse states: