成唯識論演祕 7.27

7.27

According to that sūtra: 'If ignorance and the various views had a single characteristic, there would be no purification or liberation, and ordinary beings and buddhas would not be two. Why is this? Because afflictions would have identical essential characteristics. For what reason? Because they would share a single mind, arise and cease at the same time, and be neither distinct nor different. Sons of the Buddha! If bondage and liberation had a single characteristic, the four great elements could be one, and the six tastes should not be different; but since the great elements are different, bondage and liberation are also like this. Sons of the Buddha! When all bodhisattvas are ordinary beings, they are endowed with all fetters; but when severing them, the coarse portions are removed first, and the subtle portions are eliminated later. If in a single mind the afflictions were one, there should not be two things, light and dark. Sons of the Buddha! Furthermore, to illustrate the distant by the near: in the wholesome mind of an ordinary being, there is not even unwholesomeness, how much less could there be ignorance in a signless mind? Sons of the Buddha! As for the statement that good and evil share a single mind, this is a verse of the non-Buddhist master Andha in the kingdom of King Bimbisāra: "Light and darkness have a single characteristic; good and evil share a single mind."'"