宗鏡錄 48.57

48.57

答。皆熏三種。縱異界相緣時。五識須託自第八相。而熏本質種。又如二禪已上。借初禪三識緣上地三境時。亦各熏三種。其相質種。二禪已上收。見分種。即屬初禪繫。以越界地地法無。故言借。若得諸根互用。緣自他五塵境。皆熏三種子。以是性境收。本質同是第八相分故。若第六緣第八見分時。熏得見質二種。皆是心種。即與第八熏得見分種。又自熏得第六見分種。中間相分即不熏。若第六緣第八相分時。或熏三種子。為自熏得能緣見分種。若現量時。亦自熏得相分五塵種。又與第八熏得五根塵本質種。多分只熏見質二種。

Answer: They always perfume three kinds of seeds. Even when cognizing objects of a different realm, the five consciousnesses must rely on the nimitta of their own eighth consciousness to perfume the seed of the basic substance (bimbamātā). Again, as when from the second dhyāna and above, one borrows the three consciousnesses of the first dhyāna to cognize the three objects of the higher stages, they also each perfume three kinds of seeds. The seeds of the nimitta and the basic substance are included in the second dhyāna and above; the seeds of the darśanabhāga belong and are bound to the first dhyāna. Because the dharmas of that specific stage are absent when crossing realms and stages, it is called 'borrowing'. If one attains the mutual use of the senses, cognizing the five sense-objects of oneself and others, all of them perfume three seeds; because they are subsumed under actual objects (pariniṣpanna-viṣaya) and their basic substance is identically the nimittabhāga of the eighth consciousness. When the sixth consciousness cognizes the darśanabhāga of the eighth consciousness, it perfumes and obtains two seeds—darśana and basic substance—both of which are mental seeds. That is, it perfumes and obtains the darśanabhāga seed for the eighth consciousness, and also perfumes and obtains the darśanabhāga seed for the sixth consciousness itself; the intermediate nimittabhāga is not perfumed. When the sixth consciousness cognizes the nimittabhāga of the eighth consciousness, it may perfume three seeds: it perfumes and obtains the cognitive darśanabhāga seed for itself; if it is in direct perception (pratyakṣa), it also perfumes and obtains for itself the nimittabhāga seeds of the five sense-objects; and it perfumes and obtains for the eighth consciousness the basic substance seeds of the five sense organs and sense-objects. In most cases, it merely perfumes the two seeds of darśana and the basic substance.