菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 2.33

2.33

He replied, "This path is not a true path or is a true path. Why is that? There are Buddhas, there is the teaching of the Dharma, and there are manifested transformations seen by sentient beings; for this reason, this path is not the true path. Sentient beings with conditioning conditions are the path; sentient beings in whom conditioning conditions are exhausted are the true path. Sentient beings of the past whose conditioning conditions are exhausted are not the true path in the present. Sentient beings of the present whose conditioning conditions are exhausted are not the true path in the past. Sentient beings of the past and present whose conditioning conditions are exhausted are not the true path in the future. Sentient beings of the future whose conditioning conditions are exhausted are not the true path in the past and present. Why is that? This path is not the true path; sentient beings of the past whose conditioning conditions are exhausted, sentient beings of the present whose conditioning conditions are exhausted, and sentient beings of the future whose conditioning conditions are exhausted are the true path. Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas know and perceive it, neither abiding nor entering. Why is that? It is just like the nine conducts being unexhausted. What are the nine conducts? They are superior-superior, superior-middling, superior-inferior; middling-superior, middling-middling, middling-inferior; inferior-superior, inferior-middling, and inferior-inferior. When superior-superior conditions are exhausted while superior-middling conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When superior-middling conditions are exhausted while superior-inferior conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When superior-inferior conditions are exhausted while middling-superior conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When middling-superior conditions are exhausted while middling-middling conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When middling-middling conditions are exhausted while middling-inferior conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When middling-inferior conditions are exhausted while inferior-superior conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When inferior-superior conditions are exhausted while inferior-middling conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When inferior-middling conditions are exhausted while inferior-inferior conditions are unexhausted, it is not the true path. When inferior-inferior conditions are exhausted, it is the true path. With respect to the true nature, bodhisattva-mahāsattvas neither grasp nor abandon, neither abide nor not abide; past, future, and present are equal, the path is equal, nirvāṇa is equal—the single equality without duality. The dharma-nature is equal, the natural mark is equal, sentient beings are equal, defilements are equal, the five aggregates are equal, conditions are equal, and the conduct of ignorance is equal; the conduct of the path is pure, neither one nor two. When conditions of the conduct of desire are exhausted, the conditions of the conduct of form are not yet exhausted; when conditions of the conduct of form are exhausted, the conditions of the conduct of formlessness are not yet exhausted; when conditions of the conduct of formlessness are exhausted, conditions of the conduct of form are exhausted, and conditions of the conduct of the desire realm are exhausted—this is called the bodhisattva's equality, neither one nor two."