起信論疏筆削記 13.57

13.57

答下，二、答，二：初、正答。凡夫不覺者，以不聞大乘教，不遇真善友，故於諸法不知梨耶所變。又不知能變之識真妄和合，無有自性，故云不覺。資持力者，謂依意識分別，心外見有生死涅槃，從此起心，厭生死苦，樂求涅槃，資熏真如，真如任持能熏之力，由是發心修行也。不達本者，以不能了自心，則生二妄想，道目前而遠覓，佛在內而外求，解既不正，行亦迀會，故向菩提不能速疾，故云疎遠也。了本者，既知諸法唯心所現，終不隨順麁識分別，執心外法，擬棄生死，別求涅槃。雖修諸行而無行可行，雖度眾生而無生可度，故經云：了心及境界，妄想即不生。斯則了本識而修行也。既而忘緣內照，稱順本性，速得合道，故云親而且近，如下順性修檀等。前云：自信己性，知心妄動，無前境界，修遠離法等，即斯行也。

"Answer," etc., is second: the reply, in two parts: first, the direct reply. "Ordinary persons are unawakened": because they have not heard the Mahāyāna teaching and have not met true spiritual friends, they do not know that all dharmas are transformed by the ālayavijñāna. Furthermore, they do not know that the transforming consciousness is a combination of the real and the false and has no self-nature; hence it says "unawakened." "Supporting power": relying on the conceptual differentiation of mental consciousness, they see saṃsāra and nirvāṇa outside the mind, and from this generate the mind that loathes the suffering of saṃsāra and aspires to seek nirvāṇa, assisting in perfuming tathatā; tathatā supports this power of active perfuming, and from this they generate the intention to cultivate practice. "Not comprehending the root": because they cannot understand their own mind, they give rise to two false thoughts—seeking the path at a distance when it is right before their eyes, and seeking the Buddha externally when he is within. Since their understanding is incorrect, their practice is also roundabout; thus they cannot quickly proceed toward bodhi, which is why it says "distant." "Comprehending the root": having known that all dharmas are manifested by mind-only, they ultimately do not follow the conceptual differentiations of coarse consciousness, grasp at dharmas outside the mind, or plan to abandon saṃsāra and seek nirvāṇa separately. Although cultivating all practices, there are no practices to be cultivated; although saving sentient beings, there are no sentient beings to be saved. Therefore the sūtra says: "Comprehending mind and objective realms, false thoughts do not arise." This is cultivating practice through comprehending the root consciousness. Having forgotten conditions and illuminated inwardly, they accord with their original nature and quickly join with the path; hence it says "intimate and close," just as cultivating generosity and the rest in accordance with nature below. The earlier statement, "having confidence in one's own nature, knowing that the mind moves falsely and that there are no external sense spheres, cultivating the method of detachment," and so forth, is precisely this practice.