起信論疏筆削記 13.62

13.62

Treatise: "Relying upon this," etc., reveals the function. Commentary: "Mind and objective realm": arising from the mind and drawn forth by the objective realm, although divided into two dharmas, their essence is solely original enlightenment without duality, and is also called essence and marks. "Potent": because the false mind is weak, the force of original enlightenment is strong, and its perfuming power is intense. Formerly, following the flow, the false was potent and the real was weak; now, having reversed the flow, the efficacy of real perfuming is abundant and the momentum of the false mind wanes. Treatise: "Having confidence that one's own body," etc.: spoken in terms of persons, it therefore says "one's own body," because one's own tathatā perfumes one's own false mind with such power that it is capable of introspective illumination. One has faith that the tathatā within one's own body is no different from the Buddha, and is only covered by false delusions and thus unmanifest. Now, one generates the three minds—including the upright mind—and cultivates the five practices—including generosity—counteracting false delusions and causing the essence to become manifest.