成唯識論述記 9.17

9.17

The Commentary states: This nature is precisely all meanings and principles of the aggregates, bases, realms, and so forth falsely grasped, whether dharma or self; within these two kinds, their own-nature and differentiated meanings are precisely phenomena that do not exist outside the mind; that is, it is because there is the substance of the conceptualizing mind that things are conceptualized as existent. The word "parikalpa" in the upper line reveals the substance of the conceptualizing mind and the like, showing the substance of that phenomenon through the ākāra of pervasive conceptualization; the word "parikalpa" in the second line is precisely the ākāra of the mind that is the pervasive conceptualizer. The former uses the ākāra to present that substance of phenomena; the latter uses the ākāra to clarify the fault of giving rise to conceptualization. Question: Since the own-nature of these conceptualized phenomena does not exist, why are they called "things" and called "various"? Answer: In accord with the conceptualizing mind, they are spoken of as things; because the mind has many categories, they are spoken of as various; their substances are not various. Furthermore, the non-existent phenomena that are conceptualized may also be called things, because both existent and non-existent phenomena are called things. As for saying "various," in accord with the falsely discriminating mind that is the pervasive conceptualizer conceiving these non-existent things, before the mind there are also various marks.