淨名經集解關中疏 2.408
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2.408
"What is meant by the exhaustible? It refers to conditioned dharmas. What is meant by the inexhaustible? It refers to unconditioned dharmas. As for a bodhisattva, they do not exhaust the conditioned, nor do they abide in the unconditioned." The second part is a brief explanation. Sengzhao says: "Although the conditioned is false, if one abandons it then the great enterprise will not be accomplished. Although the unconditioned is real, if one abides in it then the mind of wisdom will not be luminous. Therefore, because a bodhisattva does not exhaust the conditioned, there is no virtue they do not achieve; because they do not abide in the unconditioned, there is no way they do not cover. Reaching the point of going forth into life and entering death, whatever they encounter they mount as a vehicle. Being in the pure, they are pure without feeling joy; dwelling in the defiled, they are defiled without feeling sorrow. Responding to the other, they act; in oneself, it is unconditioned. This is the equal, inconceivable Way of all the Buddhas."
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