起信論疏筆削記 6.41
English (machine translation) 6.41
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6.41
Second, from "Because the One..." onward, explains the present text; the meaning has three parts: first, generally indicating the intention. "Containing the shared and the distinct" explains the intention of the preceding text. In the preceding text, because the two gates had not yet been opened, it spoke only in terms of the One Mind generally and comprehensively subsuming [all dharmas]; therefore it said "subsumes," without saying "each." "Now divided..." onward indicates the present intention, meaning that in the present text, since the two gates have already been opened, within each gate each separately subsumes all dharmas. If there were no explicit distinction, one might suppose that the two gates jointly subsume all dharmas, which would incur the fault of not subsuming dharmas exhaustively; therefore it says "all each."
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