宗鏡錄 48.23

48.23

答。今按。有為法分為三品。一者上品。如七轉識。及相應等。一分能緣慮故力最強。悉有力自熏。二者中品。如五塵相分等。雖有熏力。而力稍微。假心與力。彼方自熏。三者下品。即極劣無記。而極羸病無力之人。不能自起。縱人與力扶持。亦不能起。本識等類。亦復如是。本無熏力。謂心與力。亦不能熏。由是義故。極劣無記一向無力。故非能熏。與五塵相分不同。彼自有力。但力稍劣不能獨熏。假心相助。自有半力。故是能熏。由是義故。今正解者。第八識聚。及此所變異熟五根相分。并異熟扶根等。及異熟前六識等。並無新種。以其極劣。非能熏故。從本有舊種所生。其長養五根。及此扶根。及等流五塵等相分前六識所變者。皆可各有新本二種。

Answer: Examining this now, conditioned dharmas are divided into three grades. The first is the superior grade: such as the seven transforming consciousnesses and their associates, etc. Because they possess a portion that can cognize and deliberate, their power is strongest; all have the power to perfumed [seeds] by themselves. The second is the middling grade: such as the nimittabhāga of the five sense-objects, etc. Although they possess perfuming power, their power is rather slight; relying on the citta to lend them power, they then perfume [their own seeds] by themselves. The third is the inferior grade: namely, the extremely weak indeterminate [dharmas]. Like an extremely emaciated, sick, and powerless person who cannot rise on their own—even if another lends power to support them, they still cannot rise—the fundamental consciousness and its category are also like this: originally lacking perfuming power, even if one says citta lends them power, they still cannot perfume. By this principle, the extremely weak indeterminate [dharmas] are entirely powerless and therefore are not active perfumers. They are not like the nimittabhāga of the five sense-objects: the latter have their own power, but because their power is rather weak they cannot perfume alone; relying on the assistance of the citta, they have half the power themselves, and thus are active perfumers. By this principle, the correct explanation now is: the aggregate of the eighth consciousness, along with the nimittabhāga of the retributive five sense-faculties and the retributive supporting faculties transformed by it, as well as the retributive prior six consciousnesses, etc., entirely lack new seeds, because they are extremely weak and are not active perfumers; they are produced from originally existing old seeds. The nourished five sense-faculties, their supporting faculties, and the nimittabhāga of the five sense-objects of equal outflow transformed by the prior six consciousnesses can each have both new and original seeds.