宗鏡錄 54.10

54.10

古德問云。且如緣佛聲名句文時。為自耳識意識緣得名句文名聞。為先要自第八託佛本質聲。變起相分了。耳識意識託第八相分為質。變相分緣方得聞耶。

An ancient master asked: 'Now, when conditioning the Buddha's sounds, names, phrases, and syllables, is it that one's own ear consciousness and manovijñāna condition the names, phrases, and syllables so that it is called hearing, or is it that one's own eighth consciousness must first take the Buddha's fundamental sound as substance, transform and raise a nimittabhāga, and then the ear consciousness and manovijñāna take the eighth's nimittabhāga as substance, transforming their own nimittabhāga to condition it, so that hearing is attained?'