[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) › 80.9 # 宗鏡錄 80.9 宗鏡錄 80.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [80.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.9) 答。心本是化。理不思議。從心現心。如化起化。佛地論云。心化唯二。一自身相應。謂自心上化現種種心。及心法影像差別。二他身相應。謂令他心。亦現種種心。及心法影像差別。此並相分。似見分現。有義。定力能令自心解非分法。名化自心。加被有情。令愚昧者。解深細法。令失念者。得正憶念。名化他心。然心無化。無形質故。如論說言。心無形故。不可變化。又說化身無心心法。此就二乘。及諸異生定力而說。彼定力劣。不能化現無形質法。諸佛菩薩不思議定。皆能化現。若不爾者。云何如來現貪瞋等。云何聲聞及傍生等。知如來心。云何經說化無量類。皆令有心。云何此論說諸化意業。云何經說有依他心。但諸化色。同實色用。化根及心。但有相現。不同實用。又就下類。故作是說。若爾。云何不化非情。令心相現。非情已是心等相分。云何復令有心相現。若心相現。則名有情。非非情攝。是故化心。但說二種。一自身。二他身化等。 > Answer: The mind is fundamentally a transformation, its principle inconceivable. Manifesting mind from mind is like a transformation giving rise to a transformation. The Buddhabhūmisūtraśāstra says: "Transformations of mind are only two: first, corresponding to one's own body, meaning transformatively manifesting various minds and images of mental factors upon one's own mind; second, corresponding to other bodies, meaning causing other minds to also manifest various minds and images of mental factors. These are all objective aspects (nimittabhāga) appearing like subjective aspects (darśanabhāga). Another view holds: meditative power can enable one's own mind to understand phenomena beyond its own sphere, which is called transforming one's own mind; by conferring blessings upon sentient beings, enabling the ignorant to understand deep and subtle phenomena, and enabling those who have lost mindfulness to attain correct mindfulness, this is called transforming another's mind. However, the mind has no transformation, because it has no shape or material quality. As the treatise says: 'Because the mind has no form, it cannot be transformed.' It also says that transformed bodies have no mind or mental factors. This is said with reference to the meditative power of the two vehicles and ordinary beings; their meditative power is inferior and cannot transformatively manifest formless and immaterial phenomena. The inconceivable meditative absorption of all Buddhas and bodhisattvas can transformatively manifest all of them. Were it not so, how could the Tathāgata manifest greed, anger, and the like? How could śrāvakas and animals know the Tathāgata's mind? Why do the sūtras speak of transforming immeasurable kinds of beings, causing them all to have minds? Why does this treatise speak of various transformed mental karma? Why do the sūtras say that there is mind dependent on another? It is only that transformed forms share the function of real forms, while transformed sense faculties and minds merely have their characteristics appear without sharing their real function. Furthermore, that statement was made in reference to inferior kinds. If so, why not transform insentient things to make the characteristics of mind appear? Insentient things are already the nimittabhāga of mind and the like; how could one cause them to have the characteristics of mind appear again? If the characteristics of mind appeared, they would be named sentient beings, and would not be subsumed under the insentient. Therefore, transformed minds are spoken of as only two kinds: first, one's own body; second, transforming another's body, and so on." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 80.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.8) - [Next: 80.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.10) - [Up: 80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.80.9) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛地經論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.buddhabhumisutra!buddhabhumisutrasastra*zh-xuanzang.7.39) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.9) · Pramāṇa