大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 71.14

71.14

Regarding the commentary's phrase “Meaning that the six sense bases reciprocally bind one another,” it is like the mental consciousness universally cognizing among the six faculties, where the faculties and dharmas also proceed in accord with consciousness. Among the six, the eye sees its own body, and the ear hears its own sound; sound and body are both subsumed within the internal faculties. Because the faculties follow consciousness in cognizing the eye faculty, they cause the faculties to be bound and unable to attain liberation. The rest can be understood by analogy. Hence it says “reciprocally.” Regarding the commentary's phrase “Second, conforming to practice in arising and ceasing,” this phrasing is an inversion; if correct, it should say “conforming to the arising and ceasing of practice.” The faculties and the mind-king mutually accompany each other in defilement, hence they conform to arising and ceasing. Regarding “easily differentiated and extinguished,” it explains lightness by means of arising and abiding, transformation by means of differentiation, and destruction by means of cessation. Regarding “Third, conforming to practice in meditative observation,” it is because the discursive and investigating mind functions with respect to the six sense objects.