楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 2.204
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2.204
As for 'view of self', they generate the view of a controlling master regarding the body of the five skandhas. This is divided into two kinds: 'innate' means the view arises together with the body, like the aforementioned view of self; conceptualization then arises in reliance on the view, like the subsequent extreme views; hence it is said 'just like the dependent origination and so forth', meaning that relying on dependent origination, the conceptualized svabhāva arises. Beginning with 'because those are neither existent', this specifically explains the conceptualized view of self above: because there are fundamentally not the four views and yet the four views exist, these are characteristics of unreal conceptualization. It is like that dependent origination, yet foolish people, through vikalpa, give rise to clingings to various conceptualized svabhāvas; hence it is compared to a mirage in the heat, where what is not water is taken to be water, which is its characteristic. 'By apprehending the absence of svabhāva through the selflessness of persons' means that a person advancing toward the first fruit, by contemplating the selflessness of persons, understands that there is fundamentally no svabhāva, and therefore their delusion is severed. 'Ignorance' refers to defiled ignorance.
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