宗鏡錄 48.33

48.33

答。將第三義簡。論云。三可熏性。若法自在。性非堅密。能受習氣。乃是所熏。此遮心所及無為法。無為堅密。故非所熏。言自在者。正簡難陀許第八五心所變受熏。論主云。心所不自在。故依他生起。非所熏性。言性非堅密者。即簡馬鳴菩薩真如受熏。論主云。無為體堅密。如金石等。而不受熏。夫可熏者。且須體性虛疎。能容種子方得。馬鳴救云。我言真如受熏者。以真如是性。第八是相。性相不相離。若熏著相時。兼熏著性。或攝相歸性故。真如受熏何失。如將金石作指鐶等。護法破云。熏相不熏性。如火燒世界。不燒虛空。今唯是第八心王。體性虛疎。方可受熏。如衣服虛疎。方能受香等熏。

Answer: They are excluded by the third characteristic. The treatise says: '3. Having the nature of being perfumable: If a dharma is sovereign and its nature is not dense and solid, capable of receiving impressions, it is then the passive recipient of perfuming. This excludes mental factors and unconditioned dharmas; unconditioned dharmas are dense and solid, and thus are not passive recipients of perfuming.' The word 'sovereign' specifically excludes Nanda's acceptance that the five mental factors of the eighth consciousness transform and receive perfuming. The author of the treatise states: 'Mental factors are not sovereign, because they arise dependent on another; they are not of the nature of the recipient of perfuming.' The words 'its nature is not dense and solid' specifically exclude Bodhisattva Aśvaghoṣa's [view that] tathatā receives perfuming. The author of the treatise states: 'The substance of the unconditioned is dense and solid, like metal or stone, and does not receive perfuming. That which is perfumable must first have an empty and porous nature capable of admitting seeds before it qualifies.' Aśvaghoṣa defends: 'When I say tathatā receives perfuming, it is because tathatā is the nature and the eighth is the characteristic. Nature and characteristic are not separate: when one perfumes the characteristic, it simultaneously perfumes the nature; or, because the characteristic is subsumed into the nature, what fault is there in tathatā receiving perfuming? It is like making finger rings out of metal or stone.' Dharmapāla refutes this: 'Perfuming applies to characteristics, not to the nature, just as fire burns the world but does not burn space. Now, it is only the citta king of the eighth consciousness whose substance and nature are empty and porous that can receive perfuming, just as clothing that is porous can receive the perfuming of incense.'