瑜伽論記 20.404

20.404

下明見相一異中，景師云：離識量外無別影像，故言無異。心外無法故不見餘，還猶自心現於影像見影像時名見自心，如依淨鏡自面為緣，眼識還見自本質面，意識計度別變影像，當自心現，謂在鏡中，鏡喻定體，本質喻定相應心王，影像喻心相分，由定潤滑澄清，令心能現心之相分，即將彼定相應心王為鏡，定為本質，定所顯境是其影像，如是同時，餘數展轉相望皆得為境本質影像，散心云何？答曰：散心中皆有定數，準前作法皆得可知，世尊若諸有情自性而住下，明諸愚夫散心所取影像，亦無有異，但顛倒解，執有別物。

Below, in explaining the identity and difference between the viewing and the objective image, Master Jing says: Outside the cognitive measure of consciousness there is no separate image; therefore it is said they are not different. Because there are no dharmas outside the mind, one does not see anything else; rather, it is one's own mind that manifests the image, and when seeing the image it is called seeing one's own mind. Just as by relying on a clear mirror, with one's own face as the condition, the eye-consciousness still sees its own fundamental object, the face, and the mental consciousness conceptually imagines a distinct manifested image, appearing before one's own mind and thought to be inside the mirror. The mirror is a metaphor for the substance of concentration; the fundamental object is a metaphor for the primary mind associated with concentration; and the image is a metaphor for the objective aspect (nimittabhāga) of the mind. Because concentration is fluid and clear, it enables the mind to manifest its own objective aspect. Thus taking that primary mind associated with concentration as the mirror, concentration as the fundamental object, the object revealed by concentration is its image. In this way, simultaneously, the other mental factors looking toward one another can all serve as object, fundamental object, and image. How is it with the distracted mind? The answer is: Within the distracted mind there are also factors of concentration; according to the previous formulation, they can all be known. From 'World-Honoured One, if sentient beings abide in their own nature' onward, it explains that the images grasped by the distracted minds of ordinary foolish people are likewise not different; they merely hold inverted understandings, grasping that there are separate entities.