金剛般若經旨贊 2.235

2.235

Sūtra: "Subhūti... the meaning of what was said?" Commentary: Below is clarified non-conceptualization as it is, namely, having no subjective seeing. The preceding text refuted the objective realms grasped as self and dharmas; now it refutes the subjective seeing mind that grasps self and dharmas. The seeing mind is that which arouses conceptualization; now, turning it around to make it a non-conceptual mind, it is therefore called "non-conceptualization as it is." In the text there are four parts: questioning, answering, inquiring, and explaining. This is the first. The Buddha's speaking of the view of a self has two emptinesses: first, to establish the principle of the selflessness of persons, meaning that it reveals that there is no clung-to mark of a self, but only a false mind of the view of a self; second, to establish the principle of the selflessness of dharmas, meaning that the substance of the view of a self is also not a real dharma. The seen being non-existent, the subjective seer is also non-existent; contemplating in this way that there are truly no two views or grasping mind is the skillful means for corresponding samāpatti. It is not that knowing the absence of grasped self and dharmas constitutes the seeing mind as an entry through skillful means. Therefore, the verse in the treatise says: