大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 9.18

9.18

Regarding the Commentary's statement below from "the eight consciousnesses established": this specifically explains them. The text also consists of nine sections, corresponding in sequence to the preceding [nine], making ten sections of meaning; here the third also serves as its first, in order to correlate with the previous order. Now this first is, within the distinction between the true and false in mind-only, clarifying that complete-division consciousness-only is accomplished by the true mind. The ten meanings of the Dharmatā school are precisely the meanings within the Common Teaching of this sūtra; they will be explained below by quoting extensively from the text itself, but for now other sūtras are briefly quoted to explain them. "Penetrates the tathāgatagarbha": the tathāgatagarbha is neither arising nor ceasing, distinguishing it from the previous teaching's [position that it is] solely an arising and ceasing consciousness. The Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra, fascicle one, says: "Just as the waves of the great ocean / Are raised by this fierce wind, / The surging waves beat against the vast chasm, / Without any period of interruption; / The ocean of the storehouse consciousness is permanently abiding, / Stirred by the winds of the objective realm, / The waves of the various consciousnesses / Leap, roll, and arise in turn." Since it says that its essence is permanently abiding, it is clear that it is not merely arising and ceasing; permanently abiding is precisely the tathāgatagarbha. Regarding "the non-arising and non-ceasing harmoniously uniting with arising and ceasing": this is the text of the Awakening of Faith. In full, it says: "The non-arising and non-ceasing harmoniously uniting with arising and ceasing, neither one nor different, is called the ālayavijñāna." Since the harmonious union of the two is called the ālaya, we know that the ālaya is not solely arising and ceasing. Pure reality does not arise, and sheer falsehood cannot be established; only when reality and falsehood harmoniously unite do they form the storehouse consciousness. This is analyzed extensively as in the chapter "Asking for Clarification."