宗鏡錄 36.12

36.12

答。定散二位皆獨影境。變假相故。此假相分從能緣見分種生。自無其種。故名獨影。不同性境是實色。心。各有種生。如眼識緣色等。又不同帶質境。心緣心時定有質故。中間相分。從質見起。言獨影境。自有二類。一有質。即此觀心。託彼為質。二無質。緣龜毛等。

Answer: In both the states of concentration and distraction, it is a solitary image object, because it transforms a provisional characteristic. This provisional nimittabhāga is born from the seed of the contemplating darśanabhāga and lacks its own seed; hence it is called a solitary image. It is unlike the realm of the thing itself, which is actual form and mind, each born from its own seeds, as when visual consciousness takes form as its condition. Nor is it like an object with a substance, for when mind takes mind as a condition, there is definitely a substance; the intermediate nimittabhāga arises from both substance and vision. As for the solitary image object, there are of themselves two classes: 1. Having a substance: namely this contemplating mind relying on that as substance; 2. Lacking a substance: taking conditions such as the hair of a tortoise.