大乘起信論裂網疏 2.9

2.9

Question: Since the two aspects are simply the two truths, how do the seven kinds of two truths subsume each other? Answer: If real existence is the conventional and the cessation of real existence is the ultimate: the conventional is subsumed under the defilement associated with attachment within the aspect of arising and ceasing; the ultimate, granting it [a concession], is subsumed under approximate awakening within the aspect of arising and ceasing, while strictly speaking it is only subsumed under the defilement associated with unceasing [flow], because it is an objective realm grasped by conceptual dharma-attachment. If illusory existence is the conventional and illusory existence as empty is the ultimate: the conventional is also subsumed under the defilement associated with attachment; the ultimate is subsumed under a minor fraction of the meaning of emptiness in the aspect of tathatā. If illusory existence is the conventional and illusory existence being both empty and not-empty together is the ultimate: the conventional is subsumed as before; the ultimate is subsumed under the meaning of original awakening in the aspect of arising and ceasing, and also subsumes a minor fraction of the meaning of emptiness in the aspect of tathatā. If illusory existence is the conventional and illusory existence being both empty and not-empty, with all dharmas converging into the empty and not-empty, is the ultimate: the conventional is subsumed as before; the ultimate is subsumed under the aspect of tathatā. If illusory existence and illusory existence being empty are both called the conventional, and neither existing nor empty is the ultimate: the conventional is subsumed under non-awakening in the aspect of arising and ceasing and also subsumes approximate awakening; the ultimate is subsumed under original awakening in the aspect of arising and ceasing. If illusory existence and illusory existence being empty are both called the conventional, and neither existing nor empty with all dharmas converging into neither existing nor empty is the ultimate: the conventional is subsumed as before; the ultimate is subsumed under the aspect of tathatā. If illusory existence, illusory existence being empty, and neither existing nor empty are all called the conventional, and all dharmas converging into existence, converging into emptiness, and converging into neither existing nor empty is the ultimate: the conventional is the aspect of the mind's arising and ceasing; the ultimate is the aspect of the mind's tathatā. Only this is the original purport of this treatise.