宗鏡錄 10.15

10.15

Answer: If considered in terms of the gateway of causes, conditions, and correlative opposition, according to the Dharmalakṣaṇa school, the fundamental consciousness is itself the mirror. As the Laṅkāvatārasūtra says: 'Just as a bright mirror reflects all physical forms, so too does manifestation occur in the manifesting consciousness.' The manifesting consciousness is the eighth consciousness. According to the Dharmatā school, the tathāgatagarbha is itself the mirror. As the Awakening of Faith says: 'Furthermore, the characteristics of the substance of awakening have four great meanings, being equal to empty space, just like a pure mirror.' Moreover, the Scripture on the Divination of the Retribution of Good and Evil Karma establishes two kinds of contemplation gateways: for people of dull faculties, it establishes the contemplation of mind-and-consciousness-only; for people of sharp faculties, it establishes the contemplation of the reality of tathatā. Furthermore, the Awakening of Faith says: 'If the mind wanders and scatters, one should immediately bring it back and cause it to abide in right mindfulness. As for that right mindfulness, one should know that it is citta-only, with no external objective realms. Furthermore, this very citta also has no self-characteristic, for thought to thought it is unobtainable.' If it is the contemplation of mind-and-consciousness-only and the right mindfulness of citta-only, this corresponds to the Dharmalakṣaṇa school. If it is the contemplation of the reality of tathatā and that mind being unobtainable thought to thought, this is the Dharmatā school. If considered in terms of the gateway of the interpenetration and fusion of the Dharmatā, all return to a single purport, with no further differentiation. Now, discussing the principal source and speaking in terms of supremacy, it is explained according to the Dharmatā school. But if comprehensively subsuming all, it is like the ocean receiving all rivers: taking the root to gather the branches, how could it be limited to nature and characteristics? There is not a single phenomenon that is left out of what is illuminated.