宗鏡錄 51.7

51.7

Answer: The Prakaraṇāryavācāśāstra states: 'Regarding the ālayavijñāna: it takes the karma and kleśas produced and increased in past lives as its conditions; it takes beginningless conceptual proliferation (prapañca) habituation (vāsanā) as its cause; and it takes the maturation (vipāka) of all seeds produced thereby as its substance. This consciousness can grasp and discern the physical sense faculties, the physical bases of the faculties, and the habituation of conceptual proliferation. At all times, it is a single uniform stream of birth and death that cannot be consciously discerned. Furthermore, it can maintain and discern the external container world, and it is associated with neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, and so forth. It is strictly unhindered and neutral (anivṛtāvyākṛta), serving as the causal support for the transforming consciousnesses (pravṛttivijñāna) and the rest. A sūtra says: "Shrouded by avidyā and bound by the bonds of craving, the foolish common person obtains a body possessing consciousness." This statement manifests that there is a vipāka-ālayavijñāna.'