起信論疏筆削記 9.4

9.4

Regarding "reaching to" and what follows: this discerns the reason for naming it simply "enlightenment". Because once the actualized and the original merge, there are no two marks, and because there are no two marks there is only one enlightenment; hence the text below states: "There is also no difference of actualized enlightenment, because the four marks are primordially equal, being the same single enlightenment." Regarding "furthermore, this" and what follows: explaining according to a distinct meaning. The preceding section discerned the reason for the single enlightenment; this section discerns the reason for actualized enlightenment. The intention is to clarify that this passage of the treatise explains actualized enlightenment: because actualization arises in reliance upon the original and actualization returns to identity with the original, it is named actualized enlightenment. Because it attains for the first time the enlightenment of thoughtlessness, it is named true actualized enlightenment. Although what came before was also called actualized enlightenment, because it had not yet transcended thought it was still named non-enlightenment, or designated by names such as resembling or partial [enlightenment]. Reaching this point, thought is exhausted and the initial mark is already awakened to; hence it is named actualized enlightenment. One should know that only when it directly merges into the mind-source of original enlightenment is it named ultimate enlightenment; the mark of purity of wisdom and the like are all alike actualized enlightenment.