[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [起信論疏筆削記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848) › 13.53 # 起信論疏筆削記 13.53 起信論疏筆削記 13.53 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [13.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.13.53) 疏　證理成德者，即下涅槃是斷，業用是恩，得之一字屬能證智，是智德也。斯皆修行翻染成淨，故論以因等兩句但是再牒翻染之文，躡此以明所顯之德。疏　染心，即通六染，以無明滅故，業等三染心盡；境界滅故，智等三染心盡。一切心相不出六染，故云皆盡。故上云：因滅故，不相應心滅；緣滅故，相應心滅。心體轉依等者，以心體在纏，依九相等，名為生死。今九相既滅，生死已盡，心體空寂，名為涅槃。義說其依，實無能所。又轉之一字義兼兩勢，謂轉滅生死、轉得涅槃。又轉滅則無法可滅而似滅；轉得則無法可得為真得。轉依多義，如別所明。業用者，依涅槃空寂之體，隨機感現，無不利益，無心而應，故論云：自然業，心言罔及。故疏云不思議。斯則翻前妄心妄境，故得涅槃（六染心皆煩惱礙故）。翻前無明，成自然業（無明為智礙故）。然此因果兩科，凡賢聖果四位具足，此皆真如內熏，妄心外助，令真有力。始從凡夫，終至果位，起茲淨業也。 > Commentary: "Realizing principle and accomplishing virtue" means that nirvāṇa below is severance, the karmic function is grace, and the single word "obtain" belongs to the realizing cognition, which is the virtue of cognition. These all refer to cultivating practice to reverse defilement and achieve purity. Thus, the two clauses in the treatise, "because of the cause" and so forth, merely restate the text of reversing defilements, stepping from this to clarify the virtues revealed. Commentary: "Defiled mind" refers generally to the six defilements. Because ignorance is extinguished, the three defiled minds, including karmic consciousness, are exhausted; because the objective realm ceases, the three defiled minds, including cognition, are exhausted. All mental characteristics do not exceed the six defilements; hence it says "are all exhausted." Thus it was stated above: "Because the cause is extinguished, the non-concomitant mind is extinguished; because the condition is extinguished, the concomitant mind is extinguished." "The mental essence transforms its support," etc.: because the mental essence was in bondage, relying upon the nine marks and the rest, it was called saṃsāra. Now, since the nine marks are extinguished, saṃsāra is exhausted and the mental essence is empty and tranquil; this is called nirvāṇa. Although the support is stated in an operative sense, there is in truth no subject and object. Furthermore, the single word "transform" conveys two nuances: transforming to extinguish saṃsāra, and transforming to obtain nirvāṇa. Moreover, "transforming to extinguish" means there are no dharmas to be extinguished, yet it appears as extinction; "transforming to obtain" means there are no dharmas to be obtained, which is true obtaining. The multiple meanings of the transformation of the support are as clarified elsewhere. "Karmic function": relying on the empty and tranquil essence of nirvāṇa, it responds and manifests according to capacity, leaving none without benefit, responding without mind. Therefore the treatise says: "Spontaneous activity transcends mind and speech." Hence the commentary says it is inconceivable. Thus, reversing the preceding false mind and false objective realms results in nirvāṇa (because all six defiled minds are afflictive hindrances). Reversing the preceding ignorance results in spontaneous activity (because ignorance is a cognitive hindrance). Yet these two headings of cause and fruit are fully complete across the four ranks of ordinary persons, sages, āryas, and the fruit. These are all cases of tathatā perfuming within, while the false mind assists from without, rendering the real potent. From an ordinary person at the start to the fruitional rank at the end, this pure karma is generated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 13.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.13.52) - [Next: 13.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.13.54) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.13) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848~en-mt.13.53) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.13.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.13.53) · Pramāṇa