起信論疏筆削記 18.8

18.8

Treatise: Regarding “the mind is real” and so forth: Second, specific conclusion. The first phrase concludes freedom from seeing: having become free from deluded seeing, it is precisely the One Mind, and the mind is real. The commentary's text is clear. Treatise: Regarding “is precisely the nature of all dharmas”: It concludes the preceding freedom from marks: having become free from deluded marks, it is purely the nature, and the nature pervades everywhere. Since there is no fault of the two errors, it constitutes the attainment of conforming to the principle. Once the correct principle is conformed to, what need is there to wait for full comprehension? Hence the rubric says: “Citing what is right to show attainment.” Regarding “However, this” and so forth: It explains the meaning of dharmatā: because fundamentally, based on the tathāgatagarbha, there is arising and ceasing, arising and ceasing are dharmas, while the tathāgatagarbha is the nature. Now, entering the gate of tathatā from the gate of arising and ceasing, being free from seeing and marks precisely reveals the dharmatā. Nature is original enlightenment, which was pointed to as the essence itself in the section on establishing the meaning.