Question: If there is no path to be sought and nothing to be cut off, then why in the scriptures did the World Honored One speak of cutting off false thinking?
Answer: In reality the World Honored One did not teach cutting off false thinking. As for cutting off false thinking: without detaching from false thinking, all sentient beings falsely feel that there is something attained and something cut off; they falsely perceived that the phenomena of false thinking exist. Following the concepts of sentient beings, the World Honored One spoke provisionally in terms of the phenomena of false thinking. In reality, he did not speak a word of it. He was like a good doctor prescribing medicine for a disease. If there is no disease, he does not prescribe medicine.
Question: If the World Honored One did not speak of false thinking, then who created false thinking?
Answer: Sentient beings themselves created it.
Question: Why do they not create correct wisdom, but go on perversely creating false thinking?
Answer: They do not know correct wisdom, so they have false thinking. If they knew correct wisdom, there would be no false thinking.
Question: If there is correct wisdom, there must be false thinking. How can you say there is no false thinking?
Answer: In reality, sentient beings have neither false thinking nor correct wisdom. Neither can be found.
Question: If both of them are unattainable, then it must be that neither ordinary people nor sages exist.
Answer: There are ordinary people and there are sages too, but you yourself do not know them.
Question: What is an ordinary person? What is a sage?
Answer: If you differentiate, you are an ordinary person. If you do not differentiate, you are a sage.
Excerpt from Treatise on the True Sudden Enlightenment School of the Great Vehicle, Which Opens Up Mind and Reveals Realty-Nature
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