The Cataract That Hides the Buddha

"The Tathāgata's own great wisdom is rare and without any equal; no thought of any being throughout the whole of the world is able to reach it.
Ordinary beings falsely observe things, grasping at marks not in accordance with true principle; the Buddha is free of every mark, and is not something such people are able to see.

Those who are deluded and confused, without any knowledge, falsely grasp at the marks of the five aggregates; not understanding their own true nature, such a person does not see the Buddha.
Understanding entirely that every dharma's own nature has nothing at all to it — one who understands the nature of dharmas thus then beholds Vairocana himself.

Because of the preceding five aggregates, the following aggregates arise in succession; understanding this very nature, one beholds the Buddha, inconceivable as he is.
Just as a treasure within darkness cannot be seen without a lamp, so too, without anyone to expound the Buddha's own Dharma, even wisdom itself is unable to understand it.

And just as, when the eye has a cataract, one cannot see pure and wondrous forms, so too, with an impure mind, one cannot see the Buddha's own Dharma.
And just as, before the bright and clear sun, the blind are unable to see it, so too, without any mind of wisdom, one never sees any buddha at all.

If one is able to remove the cataract from the eye, and give up and leave behind every notion of form, seeing nothing at all among every dharma, one then attains the seeing of the Tathāgata.
All Wisdom has already spoken, before me, of every buddha's own Dharma of bodhi; from him I have heard it, and have come to behold Vairocana himself."

"Every dharma is without any true reality, and yet one falsely grasps at a mark of true reality; it is for this reason that every ordinary being transmigrates within the prison of birth-and-death.
The Dharma spoken through words and phrases is falsely discriminated by those of small wisdom; it is for this reason that obstruction arises, and one does not understand one's own mind.

If one is unable to understand one's own mind, how could one know the true path? Such a one, by means of an inverted wisdom, only increases every evil.
Not seeing that every dharma is empty, one forever undergoes the suffering of birth-and-death; this very person has not yet attained a pure Dharma-eye.

In ages past, I underwent every suffering, because I did not see the Buddha; and so I ought to purify my own Dharma-eye, and behold whatever ought to be seen.
If one attains the seeing of the Buddha, and one's own mind grasps at nothing at all, this very person is then able to see the Dharma exactly as the Buddha himself knows it.

If one sees the Buddha's own true Dharma, one is then called a person of great wisdom; this very person has a pure eye, able to observe and contemplate the world.
No seeing is itself true seeing, able to see every dharma; if, toward any dharma, there is any seeing at all, this is then no seeing at all.

The nature of every single dharma is without arising and likewise without ceasing; how wondrous is the great guide, himself awakened and able to awaken others!
Supreme Wisdom has already spoken, before me, of the Dharma the Tathāgata has realized; we, from him, have heard it, and are able to know the Buddha's own true nature."