爲鼠常留飯 憐蛾不點燈 古人此等念頭 是吾人一點生生之機 無此 便所謂土木形骸而已 (前 173)
The customs of the old that they always leave leftover for mice and turn off a lamp to pity the butterflies are part of how we value living things as human being. Without this kind of heart, human would just be a being which has a shape and a skeleton with a lump of earth and a piece of wood. (Book1 173)
Form is not different from emptiness. Emptiness is not different from form. Form is indeed emptiness. Emptiness is indeed form.
色不異空空不異色 色卽是空空卽是色
What the Truth means is not valued as the universal law but to be as practice based on it. Respect for life is the common spirit of sentient beings, but it becomes compassion when it is to appear.
Vegetable Root Discourse
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