起信論疏筆削記 7.16

7.16

[Treatise:] "It is only..." [Commentary:] Third, concluding the essence and establishing the name. The essence of the dharma: the One Mind is precisely the essence of the dharma. Therefore the earlier text says: "What is called the dharma is the mind of sentient beings." Since all dharmas are absent, only the mind remains, just as myriad images are fundamentally empty and there is only a single mirror. The Yuanjue jing says: "All illusions being completely extinguished, the enlightened mind is unmoved." Establishing the name based on the meaning: upon the One Mind, based on the meaning of being free from falsehood and change, the name "tathatā" (true suchness) is established.