起信論疏筆削記 8.26

8.26

Under 'question: since', fourth, questions and answers resolving objections, with two questions and answers. In the first question, one wonders at the sūtra text cited earlier saying that the tathāgatagarbha is not within the ālaya. The meaning of the answer says: only when the true and the false combine is it called the ālaya, but the ālaya has no essence of its own whatsoever. Spoken temporarily in terms of meaning, both the true and false dharmas are entirely within it. Due to this, the ālaya is the general, while the true and the false are the specific; one should only say that they are within the general, not that they are within the specific. Now, since stillness and motion have been distinguished, this causes the general meaning of the ālaya not to be established, and there is no 'within' in which it could reside; hence it says it is 'not within the ālaya'.