金剛般若經旨贊 2.113

2.113

Sūtra: "Subhūti, that anuttarā samyaksaṃbodhi... is neither real nor unreal." / Commentary: This refutes the attachments of increase and decrease. Fearing that hearing that cause and fruit are truly without attainment, one might slander the Tathāgata as having no bodhi at all, claiming that words about bodhi are entirely false, to refute this, he says 'neither real nor unreal.' The Buddha's bodhi is simply tathatā. Tathatā is free of unreality and reality: it is free of reality because it is truly free of the verbal marks of the conditioned five aggregates—hence it is said to be 'not real,' and thus the preceding verse says 'Not truly having conditioned characteristics'; yet it does not lack the true mark of the path spoken in the world realized and cultivated—hence it is said to be 'not unreal,' and thus the later verse says: 'That is the mark of no-mark, / Expounded as not unreal.'