起信論疏筆削記 3.9

3.9

The "latter gate" refers to the gate of arising and ceasing. The "two meanings": the treatise states, "This consciousness has two meanings, which can subsume all dharmas and produce all dharmas. What are the two? The first is the meaning of enlightenment, and the second is the meaning of non-enlightenment," etc. Thus it is clarified in reliance on this. "Meaning of enlightenment": the treatise states, "That which is called enlightenment means that the essence of mind is free from thought. The mark of being free from thought is equal to the realm of empty space, which is precisely the Tathāgata's dharmakāya," etc. Within it, there are actualized enlightenment and original enlightenment. Original enlightenment further has the differences of according with defilement and essential purity, fully as explained in the treatise. The note "Former tathatā..." resolves difficulties regarding what precedes and follows. Someone might say: "Why do the former gate of tathatā and this meaning of enlightenment not clarify opening the meanings to produce dharmas, but only in the latter gate and latter meaning clarify arising?" Therefore this explains it: being unchanging is not according with conditions; the pure mark is original enlightenment; and going against the flow is actualized enlightenment. In all these three meanings above, one cannot speak of the principle of producing defiled dharmas, because the meanings do not accord with it. Only this arising and ceasing and the meaning of non-enlightenment can be spoken of as the sequence of producing defilement. Therefore the previous heading stated, 'relying on defiled dharmas, producing the branches from the root,' and did not say 'pure dharmas, from the branches toward the root'; for this reason, the former gate and former meaning do not speak of arising. "Meaning of non-enlightenment": the treatise states, "That which is called non-enlightenment means that because one does not truly know the oneness of the dharma of tathatā, an unenlightened mind arises and there are its thoughts," etc. Within it, there are differences of the root and the branches. The branches further have the three subtle and six coarse marks, as sequentially cited, and the commentary text is self-evident.