勝鬘寶窟 2.45

2.45

第二出體門。有人言：分段有二種。一者繫業分段，下二界用五陰為體，上界則用四陰為體；若不繫業分段，用苦樂等受為體。變易亦有二種，一自報變易，用無漏五陰為體；若為物變易，依身起化，用色陰為體，此唯據佛一人也。有人言：變易無色，直是心識冥傳，念念生滅相續不斷，其中無有分限隔絕、劫數近遠，乃至菩提此生死方盡，故但用心法為體。

The second is the gate of revealing the essence. Some say: There are two kinds of fragmentary [birth-and-death]. First, the fragmentary bound by karma: the lower two realms take the five aggregates as their essence, while the upper realm takes the four aggregates as its essence. If it is fragmentary [birth-and-death] not bound by karma, it takes feelings such as suffering and pleasure as its essence. Transformation also has two kinds: first, transformation of one's own retribution, which takes the uncontaminated five aggregates as its essence; if it is transformation for the sake of beings, relying on the body to manifest apparitions, it takes the form aggregate as its essence—this is based solely on the one person of the Buddha. Some say: Transformation has no form; it is simply the hidden succession of mental consciousness, arising and ceasing from thought to thought in unbroken continuity, within which there are no limits, demarcations, or proximities and distances of kalpas; this birth-and-death is only exhausted upon reaching bodhi; therefore it takes only mental phenomena as its essence.