起信論疏筆削記 8.25

8.25

Under 'herein', second, resolving doubts. Someone might ask: 'If that is so, why did the sūtra cited earlier say that the tathāgatagarbha is not within the ālaya?' Therefore this resolves and penetrates it: it is spoken in this way in terms of meaning, not that the actual phenomena are different. 'The remaining meanings are to be measured by this': now the text presents an analogy, speaking temporarily in terms of the nature of wetness versus waves, using it to analogize that the garbha-nature is solely unarising-and-unceasing, and discussing identity and separation in contrast to the single meaning that the seven consciousnesses are solely arising-and-ceasing; regarding the remaining two meanings, the principle can also be known by analogy, hence it says 'reflect upon it'. Therefore the previous text says: 'As each meaning is presented, it melts and subsumes its own essence.'