金剛般若經旨贊 2.217

2.217

Sūtra: "The Tathāgata... is therefore called the Tathāgata." Commentary: This explains the source of the meaning. It means that wisdom conforms to suchness, and the meaning conforms to suchness-wisdom. The true Tathāgata is serene and eternally abiding. His response and transformation bodies are neither one with nor different from the true realm of phenomena. If explained from the gate of non-oneness following resonance and response, although there appears to be going and coming, if explained from the gate of non-difference where marks are subsumed into the nature of merit, then there is no going or coming. How much more so since this is the power of the Tathāgata's great compassion and vows, merely manifesting from the Dharma-mind! How could this pure deportment be said to have the marks of going and coming? Therefore, one should seek in accord with principle and matching reality. Thus the verse in the treatise says: