注大乘入楞伽經 2.148

2.148

As a later passage of the sūtra says: 'The tathāgatagarbha, perfumed by beginningless false, unwholesome latencies, is called the storehouse consciousness.' Thus the treatise says: 'The unarisen and unceasing coalesces with the arisen and ceasing; being neither identical nor different, it is called the complete ālayavijñāna storehouse consciousness.' Therefore, within this storehouse consciousness, the unarisen and unceasing pure true characteristic never ceases; only the arisen and ceasing defiled karmic characteristics cease. If the true characteristic were to cease, the true nature of the storehouse consciousness would also cease. If the true nature of the storehouse consciousness ceased, it would be identical to the annihilationist views of the non-Buddhists. For this reason, the treatise says: 'What is called cessation is only the cessation of the mind's characteristics, not the cessation of the mind's substance.' It also says: 'Only because delusion ceases do the mind's characteristics cease accordingly, not the cessation of the mind's wisdom.'