宗鏡錄 48.59

48.59

Answer: It only perfumes the seeds of the bodily faculties and the receptacle world. When cognizing the object of seeds, it does not perfume seeds, for fear of committing the fallacy of infinite regress. When the sixth consciousness cognizes the five sense organs and the object of seeds, these are all solitary shadow objects (adhimokṣa-pratibhāsa). Some say they are actual objects (vastu-viṣaya); in that case, the nimittabhāga must be real, and there would be a double set of five active sense organs, committing the fallacy of an increase in the realm of sentient beings. Therefore, we know this is untenable.