成唯識論了義燈 2.162

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The Treatise: 'Like the meaning of the four right efforts, three are spoken of distinctly.' Just as the four right efforts are spoken of conceptually as four while their entity is diligence, the life faculty and the rest, though three by conceptual difference, are in entity a single consciousness. The external challenge says: Life and the rest are spoken of conceptually, but one entity is divided into three aggregates; the right efforts are distinguished conceptually, but one diligence pervades multiple aggregates. Answer: The life faculty, by conceptual distinction, has distinct superior functions, hence it is divided across three categories. The right efforts, distinguished conceptually, have no distinct superior functions, hence they are subsumed under one category. Furthermore, although they are not completely identical, a partial analogy is taken.