俱舍論頌疏論本 29.83

29.83

Examining this scriptural verse, the Buddha, the World-Honoured One, was secretly teaching the Mahāyāna within a Hīnayāna sūtra; the principle of true emptiness is fully expressed here. The Vātsīputrīyas object: If there is no real self, then the World-Honoured One would not be omniscient. It requires a true self that does not perish from moment to moment to be capable of knowing everything all at once, because the mind and mental factors arise and perish moment by moment in different forms, and therefore the mind and mental factors cannot know everything all at once. The author of the treatise answers: "It is only with reference to the continuum possessing the capacity that knowing all phenomena is called 'omniscient'; it is not that all can be known at once through a single thought-moment."