成唯識論述記 7.554

7.554

述曰：依他色等諸境體非遍計色，似遍計所執色。遍計所執色雖無，似彼情計，非外似外，如似夢中所緣諸法，不可執為是實，亦執為心外之色，若小乘等難，不說意識現量執為外色，但說五識分別現證外境有耶？今此以理答。前解五識，不執為外，意執外，今說五識所緣，相似外，而體非外，但顯正義，不是破他。

The Commentary states: The essences of the various objects such as dependently originated form are not conceptually imagined forms; they resemble conceptually imagined forms. Although conceptually imagined form does not exist, resembling that conceptualization, it is not external yet resembles the external, just as the various dharmas conditioned in a dream cannot be grasped as real, nor grasped as form external to mind. If the Hīnayāna and others object, does it not say that mental consciousness does not directly grasp it as external form, but only says the five consciousnesses discriminate and directly realize that external objects exist? Now this is answered with reasoning. The previous explanation held that the five consciousnesses do not grasp it as external while the mind grasps it as external; now it is said that what the five consciousnesses condition resembles the external while its essence is not external. This merely reveals the correct doctrine, not refuting others.