起信論疏筆削記 2.35

2.35

"If in relation to..." is the second [section], subsuming this with the treatise, which has two parts: first, determining the scope. "Directly it is solely the final teaching": because it has the gate of arising and ceasing, expounding the meaning of the tathāgatagarbha according with conditions to make the ālaya and form all defilement and purity. "Concurrently it encompasses the sudden": because it has the gate of tathatā, revealing the essence as detached from words and discerning virtues through words. Yet, although it expounds two gates, in the gate of tathatā it only briefly reveals the essence of dharmas. When it expounds delusion and enlightenment, and discerns sages and ordinary beings—regarding defilement, it discusses the two hindrances, three subtle marks, five consciousnesses, and six coarse marks; regarding purity, it discusses the two bodies, three greatnesses, four types of faith, and five practices. It fully discerns the perfuming of defilement and purity, and extensively clarifies the gradations of the four stages. It speaks of severance and realization, and clarifies understanding and practice; everything belonging to worldly and transworldly dharmas is clarified within the gate of arising and ceasing. Since the extensive and the brief differ, the concurrent and the primary are thus judged in relation to the two teachings.