說無垢稱經疏 5.129

5.129

Commentary: This is the ninth: not seeking dharmas of the four spheres. The Abhidharmasamuccaya says: "What is received by the eye is the meaning of 'seen'; what is received by the ear is the meaning of 'heard'; what is naturally reasoned out and known to be thus and thus is the meaning of 'sensed'; what is received internally within oneself is the meaning of 'known.' Although in the Mahāyāna the harmonious combination of sense faculty, consciousness, and mental factor is called seeing, etc., because the five meanings of the faculties are predominant, they receive these names." The Yogācārabhūmi says: "Seen and known are subsumed under direct perception; heard refers to authoritative testimony; sensed is inference." Thus we know that the eye is called seeing; the ear, nose, tongue, and body along with the concurrent mental consciousness are called knowing; the mental consciousness taking teaching as its object is called hearing; and the mental consciousness reasoning independently is called sensing. The Samuccaya uses the ear as the portal through which the mental consciousness takes teaching as its object, and therefore what is received by the ear is "heard," but in fact hearing is the mental consciousness taking teaching as its object. These four are all established on the basis of the sāsrava differentiated mind; therefore it is said that tathatā is not seen, heard, and so forth.