金光明最勝王經疏 3.59

3.59

The commentary says: This is the explanation. It is divided into two parts: first, clarifying that the objective sphere is without duality; second, clarifying that wisdom is without duality. The objective sphere being without duality has first a general statement and then specific ones. This is the general statement. 'Characteristic' refers to the characteristic of a personal self; 'locus' refers to the self of phenomena. Because that personal self arises based on the self of phenomena, it is called the locus of the characteristic. Thus, the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi says: 'One must be deluded about a post or the like before one deems it a person, etc.; therefore, the essence of a personal self is non-existent, seen only through false imagination, like an eye with cataracts seeing the appearance of hair-circles.' Therefore, the sūtras and treatises call this the naturelessness of characteristics. Because the tathatā of phenomena is free from the two non-existences, it says 'both are non-existent.' Thus, the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi says: 'The consummate [nature] is in that [other-dependent nature], eternally free from the former nature.'