首楞嚴義疏注經 1.35

1.35

This is the fulfillment of hearing. "I" is Ānanda designating himself as the provisional person of the five aggregates. Yet the Buddha taught that all dharmas are devoid of self; as for now calling it "I", there are four kinds of "I": first, the imagined [self] of ordinary worldlings; second, the asserted [self] of non-Buddhist traditions; third, the provisional guest-and-host established by the noble ones in accordance with the world; fourth, the true self of the dharmakāya. The sūtra indicates the latter two, not spoken with a mind of heterodoxy or pride; hence there is no fault. "Heard" means the ear faculty generating consciousness to listen and receive; although due to the ear base, discarding the specific in favour of the general, it is therefore called "I heard". The Signless Tradition says: "Since there is no self in me, hearing also has nothing heard; arising from conditions, the provisional name is not destroyed, which is non-hearing hearing." If explained according to the Dharma-nature and the essential purport of this sūtra, the Dharma-transmitting bodhisattva, with the true self of the non-duality of self and non-self, and the wondrous ear of the non-identity and non-difference of faculty and object, hears the Dharma-gate of the unhindered integration of the ultimate and the conventional.