起信論疏筆削記 11.26

11.26

In the second [mark], Commentary: 'Depending on the preceding...' Toward agreeable and lovely realms, the mind is accompanied by joy, which is called the awareness of pleasant feeling. Toward disagreeable and unlovely realms, the mind is accompanied by anger, which is called the awareness of painful feeling. What is not painful is pleasant; what is not pleasant is painful. Since agreeable and disagreeable realms are continuous, how could the mind of pain and pleasure be interrupted? To distinguish the coarse in brief, it does not discuss equanimity; but it truly exists, lying merely between pain and pleasure. 'Continuous in itself' means that its own mark is uninterrupted. 'Moreover, able to...' Because it is continuous in itself, it can further give rise to afflictions, moistening matured karma to cause the experiencing of retribution, and causing unmatured karma to mature. Thereby leading and sustaining, it causes birth-and-death to continue without severance; this is causing the other subsequent four [marks] to continue without interruption. This is explained extensively below under the five consciousnesses of the conditions for arising and ceasing.