成唯識論述記 5.18

5.18

The Commentary states: Below, up to the citation of the Great Treatise stating that they do not arise mutually continuing two vijñānas, overturns the second [case of] abruptly encountering an object. First the principle is set forth; next proof is cited; finally it is re-established. This meaning is also like that in the stage of non-mastery. As for the outflowing of the five vijñānas: among the five minds, since it is the third, determinate [mind], and the fourth, defiled or pure [mind], they are induced and generated by the attention of the sixth, the mano-vijñāna. It is like gazing upon a Buddha statue: focusing exclusively on one object without ceasing to gaze is called "the duration before giving it up." The mental and visual vijñānas are both not given up; how could one not allow them to continue across multiple mind-moments? This sets forth the principle. Next the text of the treatise is cited.