宗鏡錄 65.21

65.21

答曰。是諸相。皆是識相。有識。則有出入息視眴壽命等。若識離身。則無。汝若云我常遍故。死人亦應有視眴出入息壽命等。復次出入息等。是色法。隨心風力。故動發。此是識相。非我相。壽命是心相應行。亦是識相。

It answers: "All these characteristics are characteristics of consciousness. If there is consciousness, there are inhalation, exhalation, glancing, blinking, life-span, and so forth; if consciousness departs from the body, there are none. If you say that the self is permanent and all-pervading, a dead person should also have glancing, blinking, inhalation, exhalation, life-span, and so forth. Furthermore, inhalation, exhalation, and the rest are material dharmas (rūpadharma), moving and initiating through the force of the wind that follows citta; these are characteristics of consciousness, not characteristics of a self. Life-span is a saṃskāra associated with citta; it is also a characteristic of consciousness."