宗鏡錄 48.43

48.43

答。將第四義簡。論云。四與所熏和合而轉。若與所熏同時同處。不即不離。乃是能熏。此遮他身剎那前後。無和合義。故非能熏。唯七轉識及彼心所。有勝勢用。而增減者。具此四義。可是能熏。如是能熏與所熏識。俱生俱滅。熏習義成。今所熏中種子生長。如熏苣勝。故名熏習。釋云。攝論云。苣勝本來是炭。多時埋在地中。便變為苣勝。如苣勝與華。俱生俱滅。內熏習。故生香氣。又種子。是習氣之異名。習氣必由熏習而有。舉。喻如麻香氣。華熏故生。即胡麻中所有香氣。必假華熏方得香也。西方若欲作塗身香油。先以華香。取於苣勝子。聚為一處。淹令極爛。後取苣勝壓油。油遂香氣芬馥。比來胡麻中無香氣。因華熏故生。熏習義者。要俱生滅。熏習義成。非如種生芽。異時故。不同生滅故。以為喻。

Answer: Setting it aside by means of the fourth criterion, the treatise says: 'Fourth, operating in harmony with that which is perfumed. If it is simultaneous and in the same place with that which is perfumed, being neither identical nor separate, it is an active perfumer.' This excludes other persons' bodies and earlier or later moments, as they lack the condition of harmony; hence they are not active perfumers. Only the seven evolving consciousnesses and their caittas, having superior forceful function and undergoing increase and decrease, possess these four criteria and can be active perfumers. Thus, when the active perfumer and the perfumed consciousness arise together and cease together, the meaning of perfuming is established. The growth of seeds within that which is perfumed now is like the scenting of sesame; hence it is called perfuming. The commentary explains: The Mahāyānasaṃgraha says that sesame was originally charcoal; buried in the earth for a long time, it transformed into sesame. When sesame and flowers arise together and cease together, inner perfuming takes place, and thus a fragrance is generated. Furthermore, 'seed' is an alternative name for habit (vāsanā). Habits necessarily arise due to perfuming. As an analogy, the fragrance of sesame arises because it is perfumed by flowers; that is, whatever fragrance exists in sesame must depend on the perfuming of flowers before it becomes fragrant. In the Western regions, if one wishes to make perfumed ointment to smear on the body, one first takes sesame seeds with flower fragrance, gathers them in one place, and steeps them until thoroughly macerated; later, one presses the oil from the sesame, and the oil then has a rich fragrance. Formerly, there was no fragrance in the sesame; it arose due to the perfuming of flowers. As for the meaning of perfuming, it requires arising and ceasing together for the meaning of perfuming to be established. It is not like a seed giving rise to a sprout, which is at a different time; because it does not arise and cease together, it cannot serve as an analogy.