宗鏡錄 52.42

52.42

Answer: The seventh's intermediate nimittabhāga is nominal and is not produced from real seeds; it merely arises from both ends. This nimittabhāga nevertheless extends across two moral natures: if one half arises from the original substance, it is of the non-obscured nature and belongs to the original substance; if one half arises from its own apprehending seventh darśanabhāga, it is the same as the darśanabhāga and is of the obscured nature. Merely through mental dharmas flaring up from both ends, a single nimittabhāga is formed. When it is said now that the object is nominal, it is spoken of only in reference to the nimittabhāga of self that accords with the deluded mind.