瑜伽師地論略纂 3.53

3.53

Regarding "If it is an instrument grasped by the self, if one says it is like a sickle" and so forth: this means that not only can a sickle cut other things, but apart from the sickle there are also knives and the like that can cut the sickle; whereas apart from seeing and so forth, another seeing-agent or another function of seeing cannot be found anywhere in other things. Therefore, apart from seeing, there is no separate self that grasps seeing and so forth. Another interpretation says: not only can a sickle cut things, there are other things that can cut things; apart from seeing and so forth, there is no separate act of seeing, and thus there is no self. This interpretation is somewhat loose and the analogy does not fit well, because the challenge concerns seeing and so forth being the instruments grasped by the self.