宗鏡錄 51.7

51.7

答。顯揚論云。阿賴耶識者。謂先世所作增長業煩惱為緣。無始時來戲論熏習為因。所生一切種子異熟為體。此識能執受了別色根。根所依處。及戲論。熏習。於一切時。一類生死不可了知。又能執持了別外器世界。與不苦不樂受等相應。一向無覆無記。與轉識等。作所依因。經云。無明所覆。愛結所繫。愚夫感得有識之身。此言顯有異熟阿賴耶識。

Answer: The Prakaraṇāryavācāśāstra states: 'Regarding the ālayavijñāna: it takes the karma and kleśas produced and increased in past lives as its conditions; it takes beginningless conceptual proliferation (prapañca) habituation (vāsanā) as its cause; and it takes the maturation (vipāka) of all seeds produced thereby as its substance. This consciousness can grasp and discern the physical sense faculties, the physical bases of the faculties, and the habituation of conceptual proliferation. At all times, it is a single uniform stream of birth and death that cannot be consciously discerned. Furthermore, it can maintain and discern the external container world, and it is associated with neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, and so forth. It is strictly unhindered and neutral (anivṛtāvyākṛta), serving as the causal support for the transforming consciousnesses (pravṛttivijñāna) and the rest. A sūtra says: "Shrouded by avidyā and bound by the bonds of craving, the foolish common person obtains a body possessing consciousness." This statement manifests that there is a vipāka-ālayavijñāna.'