楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 1.445

1.445

As for the names and meanings of these seven essential natures, some explain them in terms of falsehood as applying to ordinary beings and not nobles, but this is probably not the intent of the sūtra. As the text states below: "This is the ultimate mind of the essential nature of the Tathāgatas of the three times." And also: "Ordinary beings lack the essential nature—is it not that the meaning of 'nature' applies to the noble and not the ordinary?" Therefore, they should be explained in terms of the noble. Among the seven, the first six do not go beyond cause and effect: the essential nature of accumulation refers to the cause of accumulating the myriad goods. Due to the cause of accumulation, there are nature and characteristics, nature being internal and characteristics external. The essential nature of great elements refers to the result of the four great elements. Great elements originally apply to both ordinary and noble beings, but here they are understood in terms of noble retribution, what is termed the permanence of form, and so forth. "Permanence" refers to true permanence, which is the result of the dharmatā's five aggregates; hence there are causes and conditions, causes being intimate and conditions remote. What is completed by causes and conditions is the completed essential nature, which is the ultimate mind mentioned later in the text.