注大乘入楞伽經 9.151
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9.151
If relying on the Hīnayāna teaching, it only speaks of six consciousnesses, conceptually distinguishing mind, thought, and consciousness, and regarding the ālayavijñāna, it only obtains its name. If relying on the provisional Mahāyāna teaching, regarding the ālayavijñāna it only grasps one portion of the meaning of arising and ceasing, yet is unable to interpenetrate with the true nature, so that it states that tathatā is frozen and does not produce phenomena.
Because this sūtra speaks in accordance with reality, it states that based on the tathāgatagarbha there is saṃsāra, and based on the tathāgatagarbha there is nirvāṇa. The treatise says: “The mind pure in its self-nature is defiled by ignorance, so there is defiled mind.” Although there is defiled mind, it is constantly unchanging; this is called the harmonious combination of the true and the false, being neither different nor identical, able to establish the one mind (ekacitta) and the gates of the two truths, not falling into views of annihilation or permanence, existence or non-existence.
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