[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [宗鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016) › 65.19 # 宗鏡錄 65.19 宗鏡錄 65.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [65.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.65.19) 答。西天外道。多執身有神我。故能使身動作。若無神我。誰使身耶。龍樹菩薩破云。心是識相。自能使身。不待神也。如火性能燒物。非假於人。密嚴經云。阿賴耶識。恒與一切染淨之法。而作所依。是諸聖人。現法樂住三昧之境。人天等趣。諸佛國土。悉以為因。常以諸乘而作種性。若能了悟。即成佛道。一切眾生。有具功德。威力自在。乃至有生險難之處。阿賴耶識。恒住其中。作所依止。此是眾生無始時界諸業習氣。能自增長。亦能增長餘之七識。由是凡夫執為所作。能作內我。諸仁者。意在身中。如風速轉。業風吹種。遍在諸根。七識同時。如浪而起。外道所計勝性。微塵。自在等。悉是清淨阿賴耶識。諸仁者。阿賴耶識。由先業力。及愛為因。成就世間若干品類。妄計之人。執為作者。楞伽經云。觀諸眾生。如死屍無知。以妄想故。見有往來。若離妄想。如彼死屍。無鬼入中。是知人亦如是。但有四大。無人入中。 > Answer: The non-Buddhists of India mostly cling to the body having a spiritual self (ātman), which can cause the body to act and move. \[They say:\] "If there were no spiritual self, what would make the body move?" Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna refuted this, saying: "Citta is the characteristic of consciousness; it can naturally cause the body to move, without depending on a spirit. Just as the nature of fire can burn things without relying on a person." The Ghanavyūhasūtra says: "The ālayavijñāna constantly serves as the support for all defiled and pure dharmas; it is the sphere of the samādhi of pleasant abiding in the present dharma for all noble ones; it serves as the cause for all realms of humans, devas, and the rest, and for the buddha-lands; it constantly serves as the gotra for the various yānas. If one can fully awaken to it, one attains the Buddha path. All sentient beings possess merit, majestic power, and sovereignty, down to those born in dangerous and difficult places; the ālayavijñāna constantly abides within them, serving as their support. This is the realm of beginningless time of sentient beings, the karmic vāsanās, which can increase by themselves and can also increase the other seven vijñānas. Hence ordinary beings cling to it as what is done and as the inner self that can act. Virtuous ones, the mind in the body moves swiftly like the wind; the wind of karma blows the seeds everywhere into the sense faculties; the seven consciousnesses arise simultaneously like waves. What non-Buddhists conceptualize as primal nature (prakṛti), atoms (paramāṇu), the Lord (Īśvara), and so forth, are all the pure ālayavijñāna. Virtuous ones, through the power of past karma and with craving as condition, the ālayavijñāna accomplishes the numerous varieties of the world; confused people cling to it as an agent." The Laṅkāvatārasūtra says: "View all sentient beings as insentient corpses; because of false conceptualization, one sees coming and going. If one is free from false conceptualization, they are like those corpses, with no spirit entering inside them." Thus know that a person is also like this: there are only the four great elements, and no person enters inside them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 65.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.65.18) - [Next: 65.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.65.20) - [Up: 65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.65) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.65.19) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.65.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.65.19) · Pramāṇa