金剛經纂要刊定記 4.31

4.31

Regarding "in terms of the mind proceeding from the root," etc.: sentient beings originally initiate karma due to causes; karmic consciousness is the fundamental ignorance combined with the fundamental nature, where subject and object are not yet divided, chaotic like an egg, an egg being an eggshell. Therefore the Bhaiṣajyaguru Sūtra says: "Shattering the shell of ignorance, exhausting the river of afflictions." Ignorance initiates karma, stored in the storehouse consciousness as the womb; taking birth is moisture; at the time of birth, suddenly existing from non-existence is transformation. By this meaning, therefore, this is the sequence.