注大乘入楞伽經 9.136

9.136

Here, speaking again of nine consciousnesses refers to the *Ghanavyūha Sūtra* taking the ninth as the purely undefiled consciousness; furthermore, in various sūtras and treatises, tathatā is designated as the ninth consciousness, which are different names for the same substance, spoken together as the true one and the conventional eight. However, this tathatā is precisely the true nature of consciousness, not a separately existing substance apart from the paratantra, nor are there categorically distinct nine consciousnesses. It is merely the eighth; opening the fully endowed ālaya into two—taking the defiled portion as tainted and the undefiled portion as pure—together with the seven evolving consciousnesses, they are called the nine consciousnesses. As a verse below says: 'Revealing the ālayavijñāna, / The supreme storehouse consciousness; / Free from grasper and grasped (free from the tainted portion), / I declare it to be tathatā (which is the pure portion).' Opening it in this way is precisely 'combined in prose and divided in verse' among the five pairs of meanings. Furthermore, these conditioned evolving consciousnesses should be distinguished through four propositions: first, the true nature of consciousness (now called the ninth consciousness, also called tathatā) solely neither arises nor ceases, like the wet nature of water; second, the seven evolving consciousnesses all arise and cease, like the many waves; third, the eighth, the ālayavijñāna, both arises and ceases and neither arises nor ceases, like the ocean containing movement and stillness, hence the previous verse said: 'The ālaya is like an ocean, / The evolving consciousnesses are like waves'; fourth, ignorance and inverted grasping neither arise and cease nor do not arise and cease, like the fierce wind that raises waves being neither the water nor the waves, hence the previous verse said: 'Just as the waves of the great ocean / Are raised by fierce winds.'