[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大乘起信論裂網疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850) › 2.73 # 大乘起信論裂網疏 2.73 大乘起信論裂網疏 2.73 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.2.73) 此舉喻以釋成也。海水，喻如來藏心。波，喻前七轉識。風，喻無明心所。水之動相，即名為風。風原不在水外，喻心之不覺，即名無明。無明心所，恒與心王相應，不在心王外也。然水有可動之性，即喻無明種子藏在第八識中。波有動轉之相，即喻無明現行，但與前七識相應也。藏識常住，轉識生滅，如水與波非一。藏識亦攬真如為體，轉識亦攬真如為體，如水與波非異，以其同一濕性故也。波因風動，則舉水體皆動，喻不唯七識生滅，即藏識亦生滅也。非水性動，則波之濕性亦不曾動，喻不唯藏識性無生滅，即轉識亦性無生滅也。若風止時者，喻無明轉而為明也。波動即滅者，喻和合識與轉識相俱滅，不為所熏、能熏也。非水性滅者，喻八識轉成四智相應心品，同於真如常住不滅也。 > This presents an analogy to explain and confirm it. The ocean water illustrates the tathāgatagarbha mind. The waves illustrate the front seven evolving consciousnesses. The wind illustrates the mental factor of ignorance. The moving mark of water is itself called wind; wind is not originally outside water, illustrating that the non-awakening of the mind is itself called ignorance. The mental factor of ignorance is constantly associated with the mind-king and is not outside the mind-king. However, that water has a nature that can be moved illustrates that the seeds of ignorance are stored in the eighth consciousness. That the waves have marks of moving and turning illustrates that the active manifestations of ignorance are only associated with the front seven consciousnesses. The storehouse consciousness is eternally abiding, while the evolving consciousnesses arise and cease, just as water and waves are not one. The storehouse consciousness also takes tathatā as its essence, and the evolving consciousnesses also take tathatā as their essence, just as water and waves are not different, because they share the same nature of wetness. The waves moving due to the wind, such that the entire body of water moves, illustrates that not only do the seven consciousnesses arise and cease, but even the storehouse consciousness arises and ceases. It is not the nature of water that moves, so the wet nature of the waves has never moved, illustrating that not only is the nature of the storehouse consciousness without arising and ceasing, but even the evolving consciousnesses have a nature without arising and ceasing. "If the wind ceases" illustrates ignorance turning into illumination. "The movement of the waves ceases" illustrates that the compound consciousness and the marks of the evolving consciousnesses are both extinguished, no longer acting as the object of perfuming or the perfuming agent. "The nature of water does not cease" illustrates that the eight consciousnesses are transformed into the mental states associated with the four wisdoms, identical to tathatā in eternally abiding without destruction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.2.72) - [Next: 2.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.2.74) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850~en-mt.2.73) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.2.73) · Pramāṇa