釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 6.129

6.129

答曰：心識之法，實如所問，雖三世心識不可得，而亦可憶持。如過去瞋心已滅，不可復得，猶可憶知。亦如得他心智，即能知他三世之心，諸法雖空，而不斷故，何況自緣己三世識心而不得作入定因。緣此而推之，亦得有緣識入定之義。是故行者一心緣識，空定即謝，識定未生，中間亦例如前。

Answer: The dharma of mental consciousness is indeed as asked. Although the mental consciousness of the three times cannot be apprehended, it can nevertheless be remembered and retained. Just as a past angry mind has already ceased and cannot be apprehended again, yet can still be remembered and known; or just as when attaining knowledge of others' minds, one can know others' minds of the three times—although dharmas are empty, they are not severed—how much more so can conditioning oneself upon one's own conscious mind of the three times not serve as the cause for entering absorption? Inferring from this, the meaning of conditioning upon consciousness to enter absorption also holds. Therefore, when the practitioner single-mindedly conditions upon consciousness, the space absorption wanes, but the consciousness absorption has not yet arisen, and the intermediate state is also like the preceding.