宗鏡錄 49.29

49.29

答曰。雖不被燒。亦得自相。名為現量。所以者何。以心細色麁故。心細無狀。色麁有形。故緣彼火時。雖得自相。然不被燒。亦名現量。又彼麁色。實亦不能壞於細色。何況心法。如火災起時。欲界火災。但燒欲界。然不能燒色界定地。殊妙細色故。彼色界自起火災。燒於自地。

Answer: Although it is not burned, it still obtains the svalakṣaṇa, and is called direct perception. Why is this? Because mind is subtle and physical matter is coarse. Mind is subtle and formless, whereas physical matter is coarse and has shape. Therefore, when conditioning that fire, although it obtains the svalakṣaṇa, it is nonetheless not burned, and is also called direct perception. Furthermore, that coarse physical matter in truth also cannot destroy subtle physical matter, not to mention mental phenomena. For example, when the disaster of fire occurs, the fire disaster of the desire realm only burns the desire realm, but cannot burn the exceedingly wondrous, subtle physical matter of the samādhi stages of the form realm; therefore, that form realm itself gives rise to a fire disaster that burns its own stage.