宗鏡錄 57.3

57.3

Answer: 'True' refers to original enlightenment; 'manifesting' refers to the eighth [consciousness]; the remaining seven are all named 'consciousness that discriminates objects'. Although the seventh consciousness does not perceive external dust [objects], because it perceives the eighth, it is named 'discriminating objects'. 'True refers to original enlightenment' means the nature of the eight consciousnesses. In sūtras, where nine consciousnesses are explained, positing the name of a ninth consciousness apart from the eight consciousnesses, that is precisely the true consciousness. If subsumed according to nature, it is also not separate from the eight consciousnesses, because nature is omnipresent.